USDA Says It’s Cracking Down on Food Stamp Fraudsters

The agency said it ’surveilled over 100 locations in southern California' before making arrests.

A sign in a grocery store in Brooklyn, N.Y., on Dec. 5, 2019. Scott Heins/Getty Images

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is taking action against food stamps fraud in an operation that aims to collar “criminals engaged in defrauding American taxpayers,” the agency announced in a release.

Along with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and local law enforcement, the USDA said on May 2 that it recently “surveilled over 100 locations in southern California, including multiple SNAP retailers,” which resulted in “numerous arrests and the collection of high-value evidence.”