Various prepaid debit card transactions including large tip amounts tipped off the district manager of a Pizza Hut in Cartersville that employees may be responsible for an aggregate $5,000 theft.

The area manager told Cartersville police he noticed a trickle of unusually high tips begin in October, and found that six employees had obtained unidentifiable debit cards, to which they charged small, fraudulent purchases and added large tips. The six, including a general manager, two managers and three employees, then retrieved cash from the store in the amount of those exorbitant tips, he added.

While the transactions initially processed, it wasn't until months later the restaurant learned there was no money on the prepaid cards.

When confronted, two of the six workers allegedly admitted in writing their guilt in the theft ring, and the others immediately resigned their positions, according to the district manager.