DoorDash delivery driver pleads guilty to stealing $2.5 million in deliveries scam

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A erstwhile nutrient transportation operator has pleaded blameworthy to conspiring with others to bargain much than $2.5 cardinal from DoorDash by getting the institution to wage for deliveries that ne'er occurred

SAN FRANCISCO -- A erstwhile nutrient transportation operator pleaded blameworthy to conspiring with others to bargain much than $2.5 cardinal from DoorDash by getting the institution to wage for deliveries that ne'er occurred, national prosecutors said.

Sayee Chaitanya Reddy Devagiri pleaded blameworthy Tuesday successful national tribunal successful San Jose to a azygous number of conspiracy to perpetrate ligament fraud, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said.

Devagiri, 30, of Newport Beach, California, admitted to moving with 3 others successful 2020 and 2021 to defraud the San Francisco-based transportation company, national prosecutors said.

Prosecutors said Devagiri utilized lawsuit accounts to spot high-value orders and past utilized an employee’s credential to summation entree to DoorDash bundle and manually reassign the orders to operator accounts that helium and others controlled. Devagiri past caused the fraudulent operator accounts to study that the orders had been delivered erstwhile they had not, and manipulated DoorDash’s machine systems to wage the fraudulent operator accounts for the nonexistent deliveries, officials said.

Devagiri would past usage DoorDash bundle to alteration the orders from “delivered” presumption to “in process” presumption and manually reassign the orders to operator accounts helium and others controlled, opening the process again, prosecutors said.

The now-former worker successful the scam pleaded blameworthy to conspiracy to perpetrate ligament fraud successful November 2023 and admitted to being progressive successful the scheme, prosecutors said.

Devagiri is the 3rd suspect to beryllium convicted of his relation successful this conspiracy. He faces a maximum condemnation of 20 years successful situation and a good of $250,000. He is scheduled to instrumentality to tribunal connected Sept. 16.