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By Brandon Champion | bchampio@mlive.com - Published at MLive April 28, 2023
LANSING, MI – A Lansing police officer has been charged in a retail fraud scheme involving sports trading cards.
Gregory Tracy was arraigned Thursday for retail fraud and organized retail fraud, Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel said.
Tracy is alleged to have engaged in a “price switching” scheme in which he switched the price on boxes of sports cards for lesser valued items.
He would then allegedly attempt to sell the higher valued cards to others. Through these actions, Tracy is believed to have defrauded Meijer of more than ten thousand dollars, Nessel said.
The scheme allegedly took place between Jan. 9 and April 3 during 65 separate incidents across Eaton, Ingham, Clinton, Ionia, Genesee, and Shiawassee counties.
“Instances of organized retail fraud cost Michigan-owned businesses and consumers alike,” Nessel said. “I appreciate the investigative work of both Meijer corporation and the Michigan State Police on this matter. My department began the Organized Retail Crime Unit in 2022 to crack down on this pervasive issue and will continue to hold bad actors accountable.”
Tracy was arraigned in the 54-B District Court in Ingham County.
https://www.mlive.com/news/2023/04/lansing-police-officer-accused-of-price-switching-trading-cards-defrauding-meijer-of-10k.html
