Bowling Green Police responded to a fast food restaurant on East Wooster Street shortly after midnight Thursday (2/27) for the possible scamming of a store employee.
After getting a phone call around 11 p.m., an assistant manager at the restaurant reportedly took money from the drawers and change bag, which were in the safe. She reportedly ran out of the store, telling another employee to not let anyone inside.
Police and store management was called. While police were at the site, the assistant manager returned, and reportedly acknowledged she had taken the money – roughly $1,200 – after getting a call from the restaurant’s corporate office. The initial call appeared to have come from the official corporate phone number.
The assistant manager said she was advised that a federal investigation was underway at the corporate headquarters, and she needed to transfer the store’s money immediately or she would be added to the federal investigation.
She told police that she grabbed the money from the safe and went to gas stations to get money card/prepaid debit cards as instructed by the man on the phone. She reportedly went to Circle K and Speedway, and bought $250 cards at both locations. The assistant manager said she gave the numbers for one of the cards to the man on the phone so he could transfer the funds. She said she then became suspicious and drove back to the restaurant.
In the presence of a police officer, the assistant manager called back the number, and spoke with the man who had called her. She informed him that she was speaking with the police, and the man quickly hung up.
Repeated calls to the number from police went unanswered.
The information and phone numbers used were forwarded to BGPD detectives.
