“A pair of brazen crooks punched another hole in the lax JFK security when they stole a trove of new Apple iPad minis — worth $1.5 million — from the same cargo building that was the site of the 1978 Lufthansa heist featured in ‘GoodFellas,'” Philip Messing and Josh Margolin report for The New York Post.
“The crooks struck shortly before midnight on Monday and used one of the airport’s own forklifts to load two pallets of the tablet computers into a truck, according to law-enforcement sources.,” Messing and Margolin report. “They might have gotten more, but the thieves drove off leaving three more pallets of the Apple tablets behind after they were challenged by an airport worker returning from dinner.”
Messing and Margolin report, “The thieves were still at large last night. Investigators, suspecting an inside job, have been questioning airport workers and given three of them polygraph tests, the sources said… They grabbed about 3,600 of the minis that were being shipped by a company called Cargo Airport Services, which said the iPads had just arrived from China and were destined for locations around the US. A group of crooks stole $5 million in cash and nearly $900,000 worth of jewelry from the same building at JFK on Dec. 11, 1978.”
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When will they start selling them at half price on eBay?
The funny part is that they will go to jail for selling iPads that don’t have retina displays. What a waste of time.
just my $0.02
The real waste of time was spent by your parents raising you to be the imbecile that you are.
Nice haul! Just wondering if they are the ones with the LTE in them, this definitely push back their shipping time.
I never hear about people stealing Samsung products….. Strange…. /sarcasm.
The perps were going to leave several pallets of Scamdung tablets but the arrival of the employee scared them off before they could leave them.
Joe Pesci just approached me about buying some “nice merchandise
You would think that Apple would have the technology to be able to detect the stolen units by their serial numbers or other unique identifier whenever they are activated and on-line…
Maybe they do.
My online receipt from Apple has a serial number for an iPad.
Wonder if Apple can monitor the serial numbers as people who end up with them try to use them on line. Might can back trace them that way.
Somebody’s insurance is going to have to cough up some dough, though.
Nice haul but seriously how are they going to sell these without getting caught?
You dont know much about theft, criminals, and selling ‘iffy’ merchandise, do you?
In related news, an entire pallet of Microsoft Surface tablets was left untouched by the thieves.
The mafia is still alive.!!
John Gotti use to have his crew steal from JFK all the time when he was a capo before he became the “Godfather” of the gambino family. So I’ve read.
IPADS! GET YER IPADS HERE!!!
IPADS! GET YER IPADS HERE!!!
34 years between heists results in the judgment that the airport has lax security?
So would the security at LAX be jfk??