Federal agents raid Santa Ana convenience store, accusing it of $2 million EBT food stamp fraud

The Orange County Register reports:

Federal agents descended on a convenience store Wednesday morning, May 3, with a search warrant in connection with what their agencies alleged was a $2 million food-stamp fraud.

Euclid Market, at Euclid Street and McFadden Avenue, and its father-daughter team are the focus of an investigation that involves the U.S. Department of Agriculture Office of the Inspector General and the Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation unit.

The authorities contend the pair wrongly have pocketed $2 million since January 2014.

For years, Jose Garcia Olivo and Johanna Garcia “have engaged in food-stamp fraud by paying individuals cash in exchange for charging those individuals’ Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) cards, instead of actually selling food,” according to an affidavit for the search warrant filed in U.S. District Court on Friday, April 28.

According to the affidavit, the daughter would at times use someone else’s EBT card at supermarkets and grocery stores to buy goods for herself.

That's a whole lot of alleged fraud for one convenient store.