A Massachusetts college track star is facing larceny charges weeks after boasting about buying a red Telsa to a local newspaper.
As the school decides whether or not she remains a student, police say the young lady has already confessed to scamming more than $500,000 from the mall jewelry store where she worked.
The 19-year-old reportedly said she is “sorry” for the embezzlement but wanted to lessen the financial load off her mother, who was at one point supporting her.
On March 8, freshman Ariel Foster, a sprinter on the school’s track team, was arrested in her Lasell University dorm room by Burlington, Massachusetts, police after being accused of stealing $547,187 through fraudulent returns at Lovisa, a costume jewelry store at the Burlington Mall where she worked.
“She would have an item in the store that she would mark up over-priced and then she would return the difference onto a credit card that she owned in her name,” Burlington Police Chief Thomas Browne told reporters last week.
According to Burlington police detectives, they were called to Lovisa on Feb. 22 after receiving notice from the store regarding a credit card machine breach. That was the morning after an evening shift employee who had forgotten to sign out returned to the store and found Foster inside.
When officers reviewed the store’s records, they noticed the transaction — one thought to be for $1 million that had not cleared, CBS Boston reported — was made after that evening shift employee had left.
Reports said her employee later recalled finding Foster after closing on Feb. 2, which was her last day as a Lovisa employee.
The investigation also discovered surveillance footage was tampered according to the store’s IT Team.
Detectives working on the case determined based on Foster’s bank records, she siphoned the money with eight transactions over three days during a 20-day span, from Feb. 2 to Feb. 22. Police reports state tens of…
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