On March 13th, 2025, a shocking call came in from J.C. [music] Penney after a 78-year-old staff member was accused of theft. >> Here you go. And I just wanted to kind of brief you. It is an internal associate. We have him in the back, which is by the salon. But I wanted to make sure it was okay with you. We kind of he he's caused he's been taking from us for over 18 months. The shrink is well over six figures for us. So we were hoping that we can actually have him walked out through the jewelry department just in case if there is anything else going on kind of as like a deterrent to the rest of the members in our store. Is that something that would [clears throat] be okay? Yeah, I mean he's got to I got to bring him out this way anyway. Okay. Okay, cool, cool, cool. Just wanted to make sure, yeah. Yeah. So did he admit to taking the stuff basically? >> He did. He admitted to Watch the full video to see what happened next.