Cargo ChronicleCargo theft cases, from the theft to the sentence.7 articles · page 1 of 1
In both cases, a load left a dock on the strength of documents. The checks that exposed the fraud came afterward. Here is how to move them before release.
Prosecutors say the ring took control of established carriers, booked loads in their names and never delivered them. The driver allegedly rotated false identities.
Police say a caller posing as the freight broker sent a refrigerated load to a side street to be moved into a box truck.
The court ordered more than $420,000 repaid to the manufacturer itself, and barred the Memphis man from running an online storefront.
Prosecutors said the ring bought licensed carriers, two through Facebook Marketplace, then booked real loads under their names and never delivered them.
Police say a pair used fraudulent licenses and shipping papers to take the load. The trailer turned up intact in Newark the next day, where troopers arrested one of the two.
Two members of a Philadelphia crew that broke into parked tractor-trailers were sentenced this month in a case spanning 16 theft dates, including $230,000 in newly minted dimes.