***UPDATED at 5:05 A.M. on JANUARY 26th***
A second person has been arrested in a fraud investigation at Augusta's T-Mobile Call Center.
Kenneth Aaron Gorham, 24, has also been arrested. He's charged with five counts of theft by deception.
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***POSTED at 11:38 A.M. on JANUARY 26th***
A woman as been arrested in the investigation of two Augusta T-Mobile Call Center employees.
Shantae Nicole Evans, 33, is burrently in the Richmond County Jail, and she is charged with five counts of theft by deception, which is a felony.
According to Richmond County Sheriff's Office investigators, the loss prevention investigator with T-Mobile filed an incident report.
Kenneth Gorham and Shantae Evans are accused of helping more than forty employees file fraudulent claims to receive tuition reimbursements for continued education classes they didn't take in 2011. The employees would provide the needed information for the claims, each of which were for $4,000-5,000 each. According to reports, the employees were profiting from those reimbursements.
We are told by Richmond County Sheriff's Office Fraud Division investigators, more information will be released Friday.
We will continue to follow this investigation and we will provide more information as it becomes available.
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