The employee of a home improvement store in Ruston has been charged after a year-long practice of giving herself fraudulent refunds.
Mercede R. Grigsby, 21, of Dubach, was charged with felony theft after an investigation at Lowe’s Tuesday.
A loss prevention manager told Ruston Police that Grigsby had been stealing from Lowe’s from May 13, 2023 to June 4, 2024.
The manager said paperwork and video for the past year showed Gentry had bought building materials for her home and then completed return transactions on her own at the store. However, she did not actually return the merchandise but was refunded for her purchases.
Grigsby reportedly wrote out a statement admitting to the practice and was terminated by Lowe’s before she was arrested.
Bail was set at $3,500.
This information has been provided by a law enforcement agency as public information. Persons named or shown in photographs or video as suspects in a criminal investigation, or arrested and charged with a crime, have not been convicted of any criminal offense and are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
