Abdulkader “Abdul” Ahmed (Photo: Palm Beach County Jail)
An employee at the Target store in unincorporated Boca Raton was taken into police custody Tuesday following a lengthy investigation that found he allegedly stole more than $41,000 from the big box retailer – a case that drew an elaborate probe from Target’s national loss protection division as well as the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office.
Those investigations, which began in October 2025, led authorities to look into Abdulkader “Abdul” Ahmed, 31, of Deerfield Beach, a team leader at the store on SR-7 (U.S. 441) in Boca Raton. They began after the store’s management identified “a series of unusually high nightly cash shortages: that consistently appeared only on shifts closed by Ahmed, a police report filed in Palm Beach County Circuit Court said. The pattern was both abnormal in frequency and significant in dollar amount, prompting immediate concern from store leadership…