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Former Fleet Manager & Wife Charged in Rite-Aid Scam

WILSONVILLE, OR - Ricky Alan Dralle, former fleet manager at Rite-Aid's regional distribution center in Wilsonville, Ore., and his wife Deborah Radcliff-Dralle, were sentenced to prison Nov. 13 after scamming the company out of more than $400,000 over the course of 9 years.

by Staff
November 17, 2009
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WILSONVILLE, OR - Ricky Alan Dralle, a former fleet manager at Rite-Aid's regional distribution center in Wilsonville, Ore., and his wife Deborah Radcliff-Dralle, were sentenced to prison Nov. 13 after scamming Rite-Aid out of more than $400,000 over the course of 9 years, according to The Oregonian.

Dralle maintained the trailers that hauled goods from Rite-Aid's West Coast warehouses to hundreds of its stores. A trusted employee since the late '80s, he worked under minimal supervision.

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He and his wife allegedly set up two dummy companies, Pac West Tire & Wheel and Willamette Truck & Trailer Parts, and billed Rite-Aid more than $400,000 for goods that were never delivered. Radcliff-Dralle, a former interior decorator, was said to be "the brains of the operation." The Dralles started the first bogus corporation in 1999, about two years after they married, reported the Oregonian.

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The scam continued for nine years and ended in April 2008 after Rite-Aid discovered Dralle was stealing tires. The investigation uncovered invoices to the bogus companies.

Dralle, 57, was sentenced to six years and Deborah Radcliff-Dralle, 54, four years and nine months. A jury found the Dralles guilty of 11 counts of aggravated theft in the first degree in October, according to the Oregonian.

The illegal income helped buy the Dralles an $829,000 home in Tualatin and an Audi Q7, the Oregonian reported.


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