Every year, when our iPhones arrive on our doorstep, we wonder if the delivery person knows what, and the value of what, they’re delivering. It seems that at least one does.
A now-former employee of United Parcel Service is accused of pilfering more than $1.3 million worth of Apple MacBooks and iPhones from the shipping company’s Winnipeg warehouse to sell on the black market over just seven months.
Erik Pindera for The Winnipeg Free Press:
The case of Winnipeg police property crime detectives against 30-year-old Orville Martirez Beltrano is laid out in court documents in a lawsuit filed last Wednesday in the Court of King’s Bench by the province’s criminal property forfeiture director.
The civil case seeks the court’s approval for provincial officials to seize Beltrano’s suburban house, his white Audi hatchback, $9,000 in cash and the money in his bank accounts as the proceeds and instruments of crime.
Between last July and this January, police allege Beltrano stole at least 866 Apple products — including iPhones and laptops — then sold them in bulk to a person he met on the online marketplace Kijiji.
UPS, which is held financially liable for items that go missing during shipping, launched a probe in December to determine why a “significant number” of Apple electronic items were disappearing from the Winnipeg warehouse…
Between Jan. 11 and 18, UPS cameras captured Beltrano removing Apple products and other electronics from pallets in the warehouse and taking them to his office elsewhere in the facility before taking them to to his vehicle on three occasions, the court papers say. In one of the thefts, he’s accused of taking 120 iPhones during a single shift… Property crimes investigators reviewed Beltrano’s schedule in prior months and discovered all of the thefts occurred on days he was working.
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Dozens of UPS workers probably saw him do it and did nothing.
UPS and Fedex require handguns to be shipped “next day” in order to reduce theft from their own employees – proven fact.
Theft and purposeful damage is rampant and UPS and Fedex allow it.
Who the fuck is stupid enough to downvote those facts?
How fucking stupid can you people be?
MDN gets new iPhone every year?
Of course they do. They’re not the only ones, ffs