Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr and Blue Ridge Judicial Circuit District Attorney Susan K. Treadaway announced a new indictment in Cherokee County charging six people who allegedly worked together to operate an organized retail crime scheme targeting T.J. Maxx and HomeGoods locations in Georgia, Tennessee, Florida and Mississippi.
As asserted in the indictment, the defendants carried out this scheme by engaging in various acts of Shoplifting, Theft by Deception, Refund Fraud, and Money Laundering – allowing those involved to convert 100 percent of the value of stolen merchandise into U.S. currency totaling tens of thousands of dollars.
This case was investigated by the Attorney General’s Organized Retail Crime Unit, the TJX Stores ORC National Task Force, and the Collierville, Tennessee, Police Department. The defendants were taken into custody with the assistance of the Cherokee County Sheriff’s Office, the Clayton County Sheriff’s Office, the Cobb County Sheriff’s Office, the DeKalb County Sheriff’s Office, and the U.S. Marshals Southeast Regional Fugitive Task Force.
