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August 3, 2019 10:34 pm

Amazon Delivery Drivers Part Of Theft Ring Selling 'Millions' in Stolen Goods on Amazon

An anonymous reader quotes the Associated Press:The two contract delivery drivers working for Amazon had a clear-cut assignment: They were supposed to bring packages from a warehouse south of Seattle to a post office for shipping, or sometimes drive to Seattle-Tacoma International Airport to pick up items that were being returned to the company. Instead, the FBI said in a search warrant affidavit unsealed last month, they routinely stole the items and sold them at pawn shops. A police detective last summer noticed that one of the drivers had dozens of pawn shop transactions, and thus began an investigation that uncovered a theft ring that sold millions of dollars' worth of stolen goods on Amazon.com in the past six years, the FBI said... Amazon told investigators that Zghair stole about $100,000 worth of property, including gaming systems, sporting goods and computer products -- items he sold to one of the pawn shops for less than $20,000, the agent wrote... Detectives staked out the pawn shops, Innovation Best in Kent and Thrift-Electro in Renton, and observed that they appeared to be paying shoplifters and drug users cash for new items from Home Depot, Lowes and Fred Meyer department stores. Unlike typical pawn shops, they didn't make sales; instead, the products were moved to a warehouse and to Amazon "fulfillment centers," from where they were shipped when they were sold on Amazon's website by sellers using the handles "Bestforyouall" or "Freeshipforyou," the affidavit said. Police say the pawn shops had received 48,000 items over the past six years -- for which they'd paid $4.1 million -- including razors, electric toothbrushes, and allergy medicine.

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