People v. Kloosterman

Defendant, Eric A. Kloosterman, appeals as of right his conviction by jury trial for conducting a criminal enterprise (racketeering), MCL 750.159i(l). We vacate defendant’s conviction and sentence.

Defendant’s conviction arose from a series of fraudulent returns at a Home Depot store. Dustin Vandermeer, an asset-protection specialist, was alerted to a suspected fraudulent return and subsequently began an investigation. Vandermeer’s investigation involved suspicious returns connected to three separate pieces of identification,1 and upon viewing surveillance videos corresponding to those…