Muhammad Rauf Ahmed allegedly stole more than 500 blank cards from the Pomona Fairplex mass vaccination site, officials said.
An employee of a Los Angeles County mass vaccination site is facing a grand theft charge for allegedly stealing more than 500 blank COVID-19 vaccine cards.
Muhammad Rauf Ahmed, 45, was employed as a nonclinical contract employee at the Pomona Fairplex vaccination site in La Verne on April 27 when police received a call about a possible theft, according to the La Verne Police Department. A security guard at the site had noticed Ahmed exiting the facility with a stack of cards in his hands.
Officials found blank vaccination cards in Ahmed’s car, and later uncovered about 400 more in his hotel room.Det. Sgt. Cory Leeper of the La Verne Police Department said Ahmed, of Las Vegas, initially claimed he took the cards to “pre-fill” them and get ahead of his workload. But blank cards are not permitted to leave vaccine sites, Leeper said, and the stacks of cards in the hotel room were still sealed in plastic.
“That was not something that is allowed, and it was not something that anyone was aware of,” Leeper said. “He did not get permission for that. This was an intentional thing that he was doing in taking these cards back to his hotel room.”
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