Four suspected in bottle deposit fraud scheme

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The St. Clair County Sheriff’s Department is asking for the public’s help in catching bottle deposit scammers. The Sheriff’s offices says four subjects copied bottle return slips and passed them off as legitimate at the Fort Gratiot WalMart in late May. The fraudulent slips were printed on paper very similar to the real paper used in bottle return machines at Walmart. The suspects left in small black vehicle and repeated this process several times. The same suspects in the Fort Gratiot incident are also suspected in a similar bottle return scam at the Chesterfield Township Walmart store. Photos of the suspects are posted below and those who can identify any of the suspects are urged to contact Detective Eric Stevens at (810) 987-1726.