A person who used to deliver food admitted they worked with others to trick DoorDash and steal over $2.5 million. They did this by making the company pay for deliveries that never happened, according to government lawyers.

Sayee Chaitanya Reddy Devagiri said he was guilty in a court in San Jose on Tuesday. He admitted to working with others to commit wire fraud, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

Devagiri, 30, from Newport Beach, California, said he worked with three other people in 2020 and 2021 to trick a delivery company in San Francisco, according to government lawyers.

The police said Devagiri used customers' accounts to order expensive things. Then, he used another worker's login to get into DoorDash's system and change the orders to drivers that he knew. These drivers then said they delivered the orders, but they didn't. Devagiri changed the system to pay these drivers for deliveries that never happened, police said.

Devagiri used the DoorDash system to change orders from "delivered" to "not delivered yet." Then, he gave the orders to drivers that he and his friends controlled, and the process started again, the police said.

Prosecutors said that the employee, who is no longer working there, said they were guilty of planning a crime in November 2023. They admitted they were part of the plan.

Devagiri is the third person found guilty in this plan. He may go to prison for 20 years and pay a fine of $250,000. He needs to go back to court on Sept. 16.