A 34-year-old London Medicine worker has been sentenced to 2 years in jail for stealing roughly $2 million in merchandise from the corporate over the course of 5 years.
Carlos Santos pleaded responsible to stealing laptops and different high-dollar electronics from the corporate’s Richmond, B.C., distribution centre and reselling the objects on-line.
The gross sales earned Santos an estimated $750,000 to $1 million in earnings earlier than he was caught, in keeping with a B.C. provincial courtroom sentencing choice delivered final month however revealed on-line Monday.
Choose Nancy Phillips described the thefts as “unsophisticated,” noting the scheme concerned little greater than Santos eradicating laptops from their packing containers and tucking the computer systems underneath his shirt earlier than heading to the employees locker room the place he would put them in his backpack and stroll out with the loot on the finish of his shift.
“Mr. Santos didn’t, for instance, create false information or develop into concerned in another kind of manipulation aside from the easy technique of putting objects in a secreted place on his particular person, placing them in a bag, recycling the packaging, leaving with the merchandise on the finish of the shift, and placing them on a social media web site for resale,” the decide famous.
“In fact, the distinction right here is that the quantum or the financial loss to London Medicine is far better.”
The thefts started in February 2017, simply 4 months after Santos was employed on the firm, and continued till he was caught in January 2022.
Throughout that point Santos stole roughly 245 objects, together with 52 objects that he took whereas he was underneath firm surveillance, in what the decide described as a “staggering” and “clearly deliberate” scheme.
‘Act of vengeance’
Santos, who had no prior felony document, confessed to police that he started stealing from London Medicine as “a little bit of an act of vengeance in opposition to his employer” as a result of he was “sad with the corporate and its wages and tempo,” the decide summarized in her July 19 sentencing choice.
“I’m instructed that Mr. Santos spent the cash largely to fund his way of life and to do things like paying payments, to purchase medication for his household, and to make on-line purchases,” the decide famous.
A London Medicine investigations supervisor offered a sufferer affect assertion to the courtroom, detailing lots of of investigative hours spent fixing the crimes.
Santos first got here to the eye of firm administration when a supervisor noticed him hiding a laptop computer underneath his shirt, prompting investigators to conduct surveillance on the worker. “Throughout the surveillance, Mr. Santos took about $100,000 value of things,” in keeping with the courtroom.
Santos co-operated with police and firm investigators, offering an itemized account of every part he stole and the approximate resale worth of every merchandise. He additionally surrendered 13 unsold stolen objects to police throughout their investigation, the decide famous.
Along with the two-year jail sentence, Santos was ordered to submit a DNA pattern to the courtroom and pay $750,000 in restitution to the corporate.
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