Daniel Holding and his 18-year-old step daughter Kira Odowd were employed by TCFF, a firm which provides cleaning and other services to Amazon.
Their trusted roles at the online retail giant’s distribution centre at the Bolton Logistics North site meant they had unfettered access to goods.
But they abused this trust, taking the chance to pocket items, including Apple AirPods.
The pair used their positions to take items from the shelves at the huge warehouse items and attempt to sneak them from the factory, using bins to disguise the items as rubbish.
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But their con was uncovered by a security guard last summer when he came across the duo in a bin compound.
The guard was conducting checks at gate posts throughout the complex at 9.10am on June 13 when he came across Odowd and Holding inside a bin compound.
The pair were standing in a large skip and Holding, 31, was emptying items from a bin into clear plastic bags.
The security guard confronted them both, took the inventory from them and escorted them to reception and police were called.
When the bags were examined they contained electrical goods worth £5,198.93, including Apple AirPods.
Their crimes came before the courts earlier this week.
Holding and Odowd, both of Arley Close, Aspull, have pleaded guilty to theft by an employee.
Holding was sentenced to undertake 100 hours of unpaid work and participate in 19 days of a thinking skills programme whilst Odowd must undertake 80 hours of unpaid work.
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They each must also pay £85 towards prosecution costs and a £95 victim surcharge.
Bolton Magistrates Court was told the pair are not well off and made the decision to steal “on the spur of the moment”.
Mark Ferguson, defending Holding said it was not a “mastermind operation”.
He added: “They simply put bins which contained valuable items from one part of the warehouse into another bin where the recycling takes place, which is where their job is involved.”
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