News Former UPS employee stole $1.3 million in Apple merchandise — used proceeds to buy a home, pay off his Audi

[Admin]

Former UPS employee gets caught stealing $1.3 million worth of Apple merchandise. The perpetrator used most of the money to buy a $630,000 home and pay off his $60,000 car.

Former UPS employee stole $1.3 million in Apple merchandise — used proceeds to buy a home, pay off his Audi : Read more

 

[peachpuff]

Court documents also revealed that Beltrano made cash deposits totaling more than $232,000 into his bank accounts from the merchandise he resold between September and January.

Not very bright.

 

[Notton]

I'm surprised it took that long to find out who was doing it.
IDK about that specific warehouse, but the one I know of had basic security. Metal detectors at the gates, security cameras everywhere, and internal UPS security. The lax part were the gates, as they were manned by low wage and poorly trained 3rd party security.

Not very bright.

Tax collection agencies care that you pay your taxes, even if it's from criminal proceeds. For instance, Al Capone was arrested for tax evasion.

 

[rluker5]

"$1800 worth of cash, electronics and jewelry"
Reminds me of Dr Evil.

 

[scottsoapbox]

"$1800 worth of cash, electronics and jewelry"
Reminds me of Dr Evil.

LOL. I wondered if this was a typo or I was richer than I thought.

 

[Deleted member 2731765]

A few days after his arrest, police executed a search warrant on his home and vehicle, where they found over $1,800 worth of cash, electronic devices, and jewelry

$1800 ? Other publications/sites/reportings say otherwise, 9K ?

"On Jan. 23, officers executed a search warrant of his south Winnipeg home and his vehicle, where they found $9,000 in cash that was bundled in a Nike bag in his vehicle, a Mac laptop, and jewelry valued at more than $9,100. The document indicated that in a videotaped interview with police, Beltrano admitted to stealing Apple products from the warehouse as well as the jewelry."

"Search warrants also turned up $9,000 in cash in a Nike bag in his vehicle, a MacBook, and more than $9,100 in jewelry. "

"CTV News says that the man admitted to stealing the Apple products during an interview with police, and they acquired a search warrant to check out his home. In it, they found around $9k in cash, stolen jewelry, and an Apple Macbook."

"A subsequent search warrant was executed on Jan. 23, at Beltrano’s home and car. Police seized around $9,000 in cash, six pieces of stolen jewellery valued at $9,150 and an Apple laptop, according to the claim."

 

[brandonjclark]

Not very bright.

Does he even trade, bro? 232k in a BANK ACCOUNT?!??!?!?!?1

 

[Udyr]

The UPS employee was fired and is now facing charges for his theft whNt sich took place between July 2023 and January 2024

Was this something related to translation?

 

[Alvar "Miles" Udell]

Or AI having a stroke while writing the article.

 

[derekullo]

"$1800 worth of cash, electronics and jewelry"
Reminds me of Dr Evil.

$1,800 in cash, electronics and jewelry.
Could just be a 1TB iPhone 15 Pro, $100 bill and a silver ring

 

[drtweak]

I worked at UPS from 06-10. There was a smuggling ring of iPhone between like 5 people. This was when they first came out. I remember having a box come to the area I managed and i saw it open, knew it was iPhones (4s's) and i saw that all the cases were in there thinking it just opened. Then i stopped and said no. I pulled them out. Every case. EMPTY. was a huge ordeal. They eventually shipped Apples in their own air cans and has security with them from when they get off the plane or truck until the drive leaves.

 

[endocine]

"Beltrano will probably serve jail time for his actions and/or be charged with a serious fine to account for all of the financial damage he has caused to UPS and Apple."

You think? If not then its time to move to canada.

 

[digitalgriffin]

10:1 is was laundered in Crypto. Not tracable, and easily hidden.

 

[FoxTread3]

March 23, 2024 - I'm curious as to how they caught the guy, and why he confessed. Did they offer him a "plea bargain" where he would get a lesser sentence? I live in Connecticut, U.S.A. and there was a big deal about stuff being stollen from at least one carrier warehouse. This past Christmas, I got a Christmas card that had been slit opened, probably looking for cash. My regular Mail Carrier said the guilty employee(s) would never be caught.

 

[Co BIY]

Cameras everywhere, every item tracked at each step and an expectant customer with delivery date in hand for every package.

I'm surprised he was able to do it so long.

 

[cryoburner]

Was this something related to translation?

Maybe a cat walked across the keyboard?

Or AI having a stroke while writing the article.

Yeah, that wouldn't surprise me, and might also explain why $9,000 + $9,100 only amounts to "over $1,800", as AI chatbots still don't tend to be all that reliable with numbers. And if this article was written by an actual human, then I wouldn't be surprised if AI could have done better. If writers are concerned about AI putting them out of work, then I kind of think some of them might need to put in a little more effort to justify their position. Really though, articles like this are little more than rehashed content quickly slapped together based on news reported at other sites, with pretty much no creativity put in by the writer, so the writing process for something like this isn't that different whether it's been done by a human or AI.

However it was written, apparently no effort was put into proofreading either, as simply reading over the final article once when posting it should have caught that random mash of letters in the middle of a word. And no corrections have been made nearly two weeks after the article was first published, despite these obvious errors getting pointed out in the comments.