A Milford Township couple pleaded guilty Monday to a scheme to buy and sell stolen items out of their QMart-based business.

Michael Gill, 42, pleaded guilty to organized retail theft and receiving stolen property, both third-degree felonies while his wife Denise Gill, 39, pleaded guilty to solicitation to retail theft and receiving stolen property, both first-degree misdemeanors. 

Sentencing has been scheduled for Sept. 21. 

The Gills were charged in October after an investigation by detectives from the Quakertown Borough Police Department and the Bucks County Detectives Drug Strike Force found they had enlisted people suffering from opioid and methamphetamine addictions to steal health and beauty products from retail stores, which the couple then purchased at a fraction of the retail value and sold for a profit.

The Gills sold many of the stolen items through an eBay account associated with their store One Stop Health and Beauty Shop located at the Quakertown Farmers Market. The couple sometimes purchased stolen items at the store, and on other occasions took delivery of the items at other locations along John Fries Highway in Milford Township.

As part of the investigation, undercover law enforcement conducted multiple controlled sales of purportedly stolen items to the Gills. Police later recovered some of these items when executing search warrants at the Gills’ QMart store and County Line Road residence.

Michael Gill reported making between $2,500 and $5,000 each weekend in sales, including through the sale of stolen items, and buying about $1,000 in products from private sellers each week, according to a criminal complaint. Between March 2017 and March 2019, revenue from the eBay business came in at about $117,000.

The case was prosecuted by Deputy District Attorney Edward M. Louka.

Contact: Manuel Gamiz Jr., 215.348.6298, mgamiz@buckscounty.org     

Criminal charges are allegations subject to proof in court. Defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty.