A UPS employee made many deliveries disappear within a very short period of time. These included 866 Apple products. The damage amounts to over 880,000 euros.
Thefts from shipping companies and parcel services are not isolated cases. Deliveries with expensive contents keep disappearing. The crooks either use the goods themselves or sell them on.
The amount of damage is usually limited, for example if only one graphics card is stolen. However, if a series of robberies extends over several months and hundreds of orders disappear, this can take on huge proportions.
In Canada, such a case has now been reported at UPS. 866 Apple products were stolen there. The packages of iPhones and iPads were worth over 880,000 euros.
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866 iPhones and iPads worth 880,000 euros stolen
What was stolen? The stolen goods were package deliveries that disappeared in Canada between July 2023 and January 2024. A UPS employee stole the packages unnoticed from his employer’s warehouse.
The deliveries included jewelry worth the equivalent of 6,200 euros. However, 866 iPhones and iPads made up the majority of the loot. The total value is said to be over 880,000 euros. The thief sold the loot at a lower value via the Kijiji platform.
He took a clever approach on the platform, which is comparable to eBay classifieds. To avoid getting caught, he processed payments either in cash or via anonymous transfer. A robber of 100 PS5 consoles wasn’t that smart and got caught before the loot was sold.
What mistake led to the arrest? The UPS employee used the money to pay off his €41,000 car. The largest sum of almost 430,000 euros went into buying a house.
During his series of robberies, he also transferred around 158,000 euros to his own bank accounts. This large sum of transfers over several months ultimately proved to be his downfall.
For this reason, he came into the sights of the investigating officers, who ordered a search. During a house search, officers found several thousand euros in cash, expensive jewelry and Apple products in his premises and his car.
After his arrest, the thief confessed to the crime. The responsible court is now considering confiscating his possessions and bank accounts.
The employee was able to steal from his employer over a period of several months and was thus able to pursue his criminal activities for a long time. If he had wanted to work directly at the source at Apple, he might have failed in the job interview: Steve Jobs tested new employees with tricky tricks during the job interview