MOBILE, Ala. ( WKRG ) — A New York man has been sentenced to 81 months in prison for a multi-state retail theft scheme that affected stores in Mobile and Bay Minette, according to the Department of Justice.
Christopher Greene-Jackson, 33, and codefendant Jason Thomas Macauley, 48, were involved in a conspiracy to steal gift cards from retail stores in seven states, which affected over 75 retail store locations.
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The DOJ news release said from February 2021 to April 2021, Greene-Jackson and Macauley were able to get “personal identification numbers” and passwords belonging to retail store employees.
Once they collected blank gift cards from stores, they used the stolen credentials to make gift card transactions at “unoccupied point-of-sale terminals.”
“While logged into the terminals using stolen credentials belonging to real employees, Greene-Jackson and Macaulay activated the blank gift cards they had taken from the store racks and loaded funds onto the gift cards,” read the release.