Organized Retail Theft Defendant Sentenced to Long Prison Term
MOBILE, Ala.
January 8, 2025
By Dale Hines
A person accused of being part of an organized retail theft ring was convicted this week and sentenced to 81 months in prison.
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 including in Alabama.
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.
In September 2024, Greene-Jackson pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud and aggravated identity theft, which officials said carries a mandatory consecutive two-year sentence.
While investigating the gift card crime, detectives found a separate retail scheme that Greene-Jackson was part of involving thefts from sporting goods retail stores.
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.
Officials said the two men then stole cash from the terminal drawer and left the stores with fraudulently loaded gift cards and stolen cash.
According to the release, between July 2023 and March 2024, Greene-Jackson worked with others to steal golf clubs and golf bags from multiple sporting goods stores in at least five states.
“The thefts were primarily carried out by conspirators who entered the stores during normal operating hours, grabbed golf clubs and bags, and ran out of the retail stores with thousands of dollars’ worth of golf equipment,” read the release.
Greene-Jackson took the stolen golf equipment from the thieves and shipped it to “an innocent third-party online retailer” that is in the business of buying and selling used golf equipment.
The value of all the equipment stolen was nearly $200,000 and affected at least 10 stores in multiple states.
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