Alexandre Henrique Costa-Mota has been charged with wire fraud and conspiracy to commit wire fraud in an alleged scheme targeting Home Depot.
A Connecticut man was given nearly $300,000 in fraudulent Home Depot credit by walking into stores in several states, taking expensive doors, and returning them without a receipt.
Alexandre Henrique Costa-Mota, 26, of West Hartford, Connecticut, was detained without bail after a judge entered not-guilty pleas on his behalf.
According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, the fraud occurred between June 2021 and February 2022.
Prosecutors say Costa-Mota entered stores empty-handed, “dressed to appear like a contractor.”
He would then collect Andersen doors and bring them to each store’s service department, where he made non-receipted returns of the doors.
Home Depot stores in Rhode Island, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maine, Maryland, Pennsylvania, New York, and New Jersey were involved.
Prosecutors said Costa-Mota was given about 370 fraudulent store credits between June 2021 and February 2022.
The defendant used his driver’s license once and several fraudulent licenses with other names to conduct the other returns, court records say.
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