The Los Angeles Police Department’s Commercial Crimes Division is investigating a multi-million dollar heist. Detectives need the public’s help in identifying and locating one of the suspects who was caught on the surveillance camera stealing iPods.
On Wednesday, June 1, 2005, the suspect entered a freight forwarding business located in the 11000 block of La Cienega Boulevard in Pacific Area. The suspect used fraudulent means to take delivery of over 12,000 iPod MP3 players. The value of the stolen cargo exceeds $2.6 million. Detectives from the Cargo Hijack Unit are working on several leads in the case.
High quality surveillance photograph of one of the suspects can be e-mailed by contacting Media Relations Section at 213-485-3586.
Anyone with information is asked to contact Detectives Zavala, Nee or Jaime at 213-847-3786. On weekends and during off-hours, call the 24-hour toll free number at the Detective Information Desk at 1-877-LAWFULL (1-877-529-3855).
Image of the suspect from surveillance camera here.
Mmmm … that comes to a retail value of $217.00 each.
They’re probably insured…
I’m sure that that freight company is getting a hefty reaming…
“$217”
You get wholesale pricing when you steal that many.
In other news, thieves broke into Dell’s main supply warehouse and stole 500,000 Dell DJ’s.
The following night they broke in again to put them back!
Bill Gates said he would never BUY an iPod… hmmmm…. I guess he really wanted one!
Coming to a Flea Market near you…
I was envious of the guy down the street because he had 4 iPods. Now there is someone out there that has 12,000 of them.
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Keeping up with the Jones’ is getting expensive.
Check out the Apple online store.
Recovered iPods, half price, preloaded with 128 kbps rap tune MP3’s.
All it takes is one person to get one of these stolen iPods, register it, and Apple will contact them to find out where they purchased it. Then the ball will be rolling on catching the jackass who stole them.
These deals are always an inside job.
“All it takes is one person to get one of these stolen iPods, register it, and Apple will contact them to find out where they purchased it. Then the ball will be rolling on catching the jackass who stole them.”
Nowdays, people find software cracks to get around things like that. I’m sure someone has developed a program that does not require you to enter a serial number of the iPod being used.
Just watch, this guy will hit the illegal music sites like mad trying to load up the iPods.
He’s probably trying to get into Guiness for the largest music collection.
“On these 50 iPods I have every classic rock song, and on these 123 I’ve stored all the classical music ever recorded. Next we have…”
Hey, what’s with the tame reactions?
C’mon, this has to be part of a bigger thing!
Bill hired this thug to prevent the iPods being sold.
Or Steve hired him to get the iPod name in the media.
Who is paying this LAPD Media Dept anyway? Isn’t it very suspicious that you can only get the hi-res pic on demand? What are they covering up? And why would MDN report on an ordinary theft, eh?
Get your brains into gear, people. This is no ordinary theft… Find the truth, {show} some creativity
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It was the commies.