BROCKTON, Mass. (AP) — Eight employees at five Brockton stores have been charged with improper use of electronic food stamp cards.
The eight defendants arrested yesterday include the owners of some of the stores. They are charged with offenses including larceny, trafficking food stamps, access fraud, and procurement fraud.
The Plymouth district attorney’s office says some transactions involved a clerk entering a $100 grocery sale using an EBT card, and giving the customer $50 cash. The stores would then use the card to buy groceries at another store, which were sold at large markups.
Undercover state troopers have been performing the transactions since May.
The stores raided were B&D Mart; JP Communications; Lucky Dollar; Rice’s Market; and Dip N’ Sip.
keep handing out the free cards. unreal
Hope they take away from the people selling the cards so people who really need the help can get the help they need.
good finally they go after the stores for fraud . so much for honest small businesses
If the state would dig a little more on this out if control issue the state of mass would be a better place.
Nice job as well to SP for taking this group down.
they give out foodstamps to people who clearly dont need them if they are sellin them for cash. lucky people cuz im pregnant and cant even get them because i have a job. pisses me off.
Glad these scum are being caught!!! I hope they go thru the transactions and gets other ppl too
**** they do it around here too. the stores buy them for half the value
Those ppl will be banned for life
why are people so focussed on the people on food stamps ? the stores where the ones giving them the ability to sell the cards for cash . the stores will be shut down and people will be in jail for fraud against the federal government , or do people support tax payers that steal from the government ?
Stores definitely in the wrong here. Shut them down and make them pay face value back to the state. Money grubbin ********.
Then they sell them to the dealers for the dope or run the formula scam.