A St. Louis man who stole hundreds of thousands of dollars in merchandise from Kohl’s has been sentenced to seven years in federal prison for the scheme.
U.S. District Judge Henry Edward Autrey issued the sentence on Feb. 26 to Marshall Lampkin, federal court records show. A jury in August 2025 convicted Lampkin, 36, of five felony counts of mail fraud in the Kohl’s Cash scam. Following his prison term, Lampkin will spend three years on supervised release, Autrey ordered.
A spokesperson for Kohl’s, which is based in Menomonee Falls, did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the judgement.
Lampkin conducted the scam over several months between October 2021 and March 2022. According to court records, he would make in-store purchases using Kohl’s Cash coupons, then, before the store’s system could account for the purchases and remove the Kohl’s Cash from his account, he would make online orders of the same amount, using the same Kohl’s Cash.
Lampkin would then return the merchandise he purchased in-store, and receive a full refund in the form of Kohl’s Cash. His actions defrauded Kohl’s of around $200,000, court records show.
He repeated the scheme more than 100 times, at 40 stores across 13 states, including Wisconsin, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Missouri.
Most of the purchases were made in Illinois, but Lampkin made a nearly $1,000 purchase at a Janesville Kohl’s in November 2021 as part of the scheme.
Evidence and testimony at trial showed that Lampkin had his online purchases shipped to storage units in St. Louis and a relative’s house in Illinois, then sold or tried to sell those items through Facebook. The purchases included furniture, flooring and small appliances.
Investigators found hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of Kohl’s merchandise in Lampkin’s storage units, according to the attorney’s office.
As part of Lampkin’s sentence, Autrey ordered him to pay more than $300,000 in restitution to Kohl’s.
Court records indicate Lampkin has appealed the decision.
This article originally appeared on Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: St. Louis man sentenced to 7 years for $200,000 Kohl’s Cash scam
Reporting by Steven Martinez, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
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