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Cargo crimes - USA - Chicago a capital for cargo thieves
In this international transport hub, criminals steal by the truckload
Chicago,Ill,USA -Chicago Tribune, by James Janega and John Bebow/Motor Vehicle Theft Intelligence Clearinghouse -Nov, 2005: -- The first of 15 stolen trailers arrived in February, loaded with $300,000 in Goodyear tires. The next month brought a $20,000 load of prescription drugs... Still more stolen goods rolled into a bogus warehouse opened by cops as a sting: Crooks brought them liquor, canned tuna, Canon copiers and hot tubs. Furniture and computer printers, cookies and car parts, all lifted by the truckload... After $60,000 in stolen sweatshirts pulled up Aug. 16, the Will County-based task force shuttered the warehouse and arrested the thieves who had filled it... Their take: $2.2 million in recovered merchandise over six months.It was a huge victory in a fight against cargo theft, a growing criminal enterprise thought to involve billions of dollars in stolen goods nationwide, millions in Chicago. But then the undercover cops in the Tri-County Auto Theft Unit went back to chasing stolen cars. Cargo theft returned to the back burner...
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