CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A man was sentenced to 45 months in prison for deceiving Walmart stores out of $400,000.
Robert Milton, 41, was sentenced Thursday on wire fraud charges. Investigators say he committed a 29-month fraudulent refund scheme targeting Walmart stores in North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Florida.
Court records show Milton manufactured counterfeit Walmart paper sales receipts to appear substantially similar to previously-issued genuine Walmart receipts he obtained when he purchased one or more prepaid debit cards totaling from $500-$1,000.
Court records also indicate Milton used transaction numbers from the original Walmart receipts to print counterfeit Walmart receipts that replaced the actual purchased products associated with the transaction codes with UPC-barcodes and descriptions of substituted counterfeit Microsoft software and counterfeit DVDs.
Walmart has since fixed the glitch in their system that allowed this scheme to happen.
Investigators allegedly confiscated thermal receipt printers, a barcode reader, 85 fake driver’s licenses for Ohio, South Carolina and Nebraska, and 1,600 counterfeit holograms for Ohio driver’s licenses from a warehouse used by Milton.
Milton has been in custody since his arrest in April 2013 and will be transferred to the custody of the Federal Bureau of Prisons.
