Montgomeryville Target Manager Pleads Guilty to Stealing Store’s Cash Deposits

Keith Heffintrayer | North Penn Now•

A Montgomery Township man has pleaded guilty to stealing multiple cash deposits while working at Target in Montgomeryville.

Court records show 27-year-old Carl Oscar pleaded guilty to misdemeanor theft by unlawful taking on Dec. 1, as part of a plea agreement with prosecutors. In exchange, felony counts of theft by unlawful taking and receiving stolen property were dismissed.

Montgomery County Common Pleas Judge Steven O’Neill sentenced Oscar to three years’ probation, according to sentencing notes and conditions in the Unified Judicial System portal.

Oscar has remained free on $5,000 unsecured bail since his arrest in May.

Police were contacted in early May by one of the store’s asset protection employees who reported that between March 22 and April 16, $31,458 in cash deposits had gone missing. Investigators said Oscar was the employee who placed the cash deposits on those dates, and after learning of the missing deposits, the employee placed a hidden camera in the cash office.

Between April 26 and April 30, the hidden surveillance footage captured Oscar stealing $13,527 by taking the cash from the deposit bags and concealing it in his pants, police said. Total documented cash that had been stolen was $44,985, according to charging documents.

On May 3, Oscar was again observed stealing $520 from a cash deposit bag, however he returned it to asset protection while police were on scene, investigators said. During an interview with police, Oscar reportedly confessed that he began stealing approximately $10,000 a month from the cash deposit bags in January and advised that he had stolen an estimated $60,000 total, according to police.