Video Shows Starbucks Barista Admitting to Stealing Customer's Credit Card

A Starbucks employee in Bellflower became an unwitting Internet star overnight thanks to a customer who recorded the teen Barista admitting to stealing her credit card.

And now she is out of a job.

It all started on New Year’s Day when Juana Martinez when to her neighborhood Starbucks for a pick me up. Martinez noticed the cashier taking and unusually long time with her credit card, and hours later, Martinez received a fraud alert that someone attempted to use her card at a Ralph’s in Lakewood.

So Martinez confronted the cashier and taped the encounter from the Starbucks drive-thru.

“We caught you on camera yesterday at Ralph’s for $212. Just know the cops are coming up here,” ” Martinez tells the bewildered barista. “You know what you did.”

It didn’t take long for the cashier to admit guilt and apologize for the alleged theft.

“I’m sorry that I took money from you and your kids,” she says in the recording. “I’m sorry that you had to come up here. I’m sorry that this is inconvenient for you.”

She pleaded with Martinez not to press charges offering to pay her $150 and insisting that she is a good student and soccer player.

But Martinez was having none of it.

“You come to Starbucks to get coffee not to get robbed,” said Martinez.

According to KTLA News Martinez Starbucks has since fired the cashier.

Posted to social media, the video of the encounter has nearly 1 million views.