Lasell University student bought Tesla after stealing $547,000 in credit card scam, police say

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. Good night. I'm Paula Evan. David is out tonight. I'm Lisa Hughes. Police say she previously used the money to purchase some high-end items. making a critical mistake wbz's Brandon Truitt explains how investigators solve this case greed took over I don't know how else you'd classify it

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say 19-year-old Ariel Foster embezzled hundreds of thousands of dollars from her job on time partial arrested Wednesday night in front of her dorm room at LaSalle University where she was running after the teen accused of blackmailing this low visa at the Burlington Mall jewelry store sells most of its items for less than $50 Burlington

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say Foster was making false transactions by marking up the price of items then returning them for the original price and pocketing the difference in the bill that his own customers were never involved in.

She acted alone, police say, for three weeks in February. Foster made eight fake transactions totaling more than $540,000 when I first saw the amount. She surprised me. I thought it was a mistake, police say, over the course of those three weeks Foster spent five thousand on a Louis Vuitton bag, six thousand on plane tickets and twenty thousand dollars on a hotel in Maui. His shopping spree ended with the purchase of a Tesla for $35,000 here, he is now in the custody of Burlington police Police tell me Foster got loose with his job and placed an order for a million dollars but never he liquidated it.

A co-worker saw the amount and then notified them. Laselle University tells us. They are cooperating with police and say that the responsibility of all

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s to comply with local, state and federal laws applies both on and off campus if one of my children comes home and says, "You have enough money to buy a Tesla while trying to go.” going to school that's certainly going to raise those flags for me, so Foster posted bail and will be arraigned tomorrow in Woburn District Court. Police are now working to determine exactly how much money they can recover. Brandon True on WBZ News