Home Depot worker allegedly swapped $387,500 in play money for real bills

Arizona man was arrested after it was discovered he was stuffing real money into his pocket and replacing the bills with fake ones

An employee at a Home Depot in Arizona has scammed the company out of hundreds of thousands of dollars since 2018, by swapping out cash from the registers for fake $100 bills, according to a criminal complaint.

Adrian Jean Pineda, who used to be in charge of counting the money in Home Depot registers in Tempe, allegedly siphoned $387,500 over four years through this scheme, the New York Times reported.