Egyir (via Metro Transit Police)

A Metrorail station manager was charged today with carrying out an embezzlement scheme in which he allegedly took customers’ nearly depleted—but not entirely empty—fare cards and transfered the remaining value to SmarTrip passes he later resold.

Prince Egyir, 43, who worked at a Metro station in Virginia, was charged in Alexandria General District Court after being arrested yesterday by Metro Transit Police. According to police, Egyir would allegedly collect paper fare passes from riders whose cards did not open the fare gates due to insufficient fare or other issues. He allegedly would then move the cards’ values to SmarTrip cards and sell them for a profit. Metro does not say how much Egyir allegedly raked in from the scheme, but most likely, fare cards do not sell for as much as emergency defibrillators.

Egyir had 10 paper fare cards on him when he was arrested yesterday, Metro says. He was suspended from duty, and in addition to the criminal charges, faces an internal investigation that could lead in his dismissal from the transit agency.