Crime & Safety

Local Man Stole Cash From Woodstock Employer

Woodstock Police Investigators are urging persons or businesses who paid cash for services at All Fleet and Automotive Service to come forward.

Car repairs sometimes seem like a ripoff, but Woodstock police say a shop worker's scam made victims out of his employer and the customers.

Cobb County resident Justin Johnson, 35, faces a charge of felony theft by taking from his time working at on Main Street in Woodstock. He no longer works for All Fleet.

A police investigation turned up evidence that Johnson collected cash from customers paying for repairs, then pocketed the money and deleted the work order from All Fleet's computer.

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The business had noticed a sharp drop in cash sales the past few months, police said in a news release Thursday. But the crime didn't come to light until a customer made a claim on a repair for which All Fleet had no record, even though the customer had a receipt.

Police reported having evidence that Johnson stole about $1,400, but they think the actual total is higher. They ask anyone who paid cash for work at All Fleet since September to return to the shop with their receipts so the owners can calculate their true losses.

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Police obtained an arrest warrant for Johnson last Friday, and he remains at large.

Johnson has a Marietta mailing address but appears to live in Northeast Cobb.

State Department of Corrections records show that Justin Bryce Johnson, 35, of Northeast Cobb is on parole until December 2015 for a felony drug conviction from 2006. Johnson served a little more than three years in prison for trafficking cocaine, possessing meth and possessing narcotic opiates in Douglas, Cobb and Harris counties, according to the online records.Β Β 

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