Sayee Chaitanya Reddy Devagiri has pleaded guilty in federal court to conspiring to defraud DoorDash, Inc., a San Francisco-based delivery company, of more than $2.5 million. The 30-year-old from Newport Beach, California, was charged by a federal grand jury in August 2024 with conspiracy to commit wire fraud under 18 U.S.C. § 1349.
Devagiri admitted to collaborating with others between 2020 and 2021 to manipulate DoorDash's systems into paying for deliveries that never occurred. As a delivery driver for the company at the time, he used customer accounts to place high-value orders and accessed DoorDash software using an employee’s credentials. He reassigned these orders to driver accounts controlled by him and his co-conspirators and falsely reported them as delivered.
The fraudulent activity involved changing order statuses within DoorDash's system from "delivered" back to "in process," allowing the scheme to be repeated multiple times quickly. This led to payments exceeding $2.5 million being made for non-existent deliveries.
Acting United States Attorney Patrick D. Robbins and FBI Special Agent in Charge Sanjay Virmani announced the guilty plea. Devagiri is one of three defendants convicted in this conspiracy; Manaswi Mandadapu pleaded guilty on May 6, 2025, while Tyler Thomas Bottenhorn entered a guilty plea on November 7, 2023.
Devagiri is scheduled for a status hearing before U.S. District Judge Beth Labson Freeman on September 16, 2025. He faces up to 20 years in prison and a fine of $250,000 upon sentencing, which will consider the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines and relevant federal statutes.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael G. Pitman is prosecuting the case with assistance from Sahib Kaur following an FBI investigation.