Metro Atlanta former Home Depot employee sentenced to 3 years in prison for $4 million gift card theft

The outside of a Home Depot
A view of the exterior of the Home Depot improvement store, in Niles, Ill., on Feb. 19, 2022. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh, File)

A Georgia resident has been sentenced to more than three years in prison after being caught stealing more than $4 million in gift cards from the Atlanta-based home improvement retailer The Home Depot.

According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Northern District of Georgia, Felecia Ingram, 53, was sentenced by Senior U.S. District Judge Thomas W. Thrash, Jr., to three years and one month in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release. She was also ordered to pay restitution to The Home Depot in the amount of $3,946,776.

How was Home Depot involved in the alleged crimes?

Ingram began her relationship with the company in 2008 as a gift cards sales associate.