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Hackensack, NJ
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Tech Consultant Buys 400+ Cellphones With Hackensack Company's Money, Sells Them On eBay
A tech consultant used a Hackensack company's money to buy $200,000 worth of cellphones that he then sold on eBay, authorities charged. Michael Acosta, 34, of North Bergen used his position in the company to buy more than 400 phones without authorization from its service provider between October 2015 and September 2018, Acting Bergen County Prosecutor Dennis Calo said Friday. He “later sold them on eBay for his own personal gain,” Calo said. Acosta was issued a summons and released pending a Feb. 20 first appearance in Bergen County Central Judicial Processing Court in Hackensack on charge…
Englewood, NJ
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Police
: Retired Fire Chief From Tenafly Swiped Artifacts From Museum To Sell On eBay
A retired Bayonne battalion chief was arrested for stealing artifacts from the Chief John T. Brennan Fire Museum and selling them online, said authorities who charged him. Paul Avery, 64 of Tenafly, was charged last Thursday with theft after an investigation found he sold several items on eBay including three helmets and a speaking trumpet, police told several media outlets. Avery, who earns an annual pension of $130,000, worked at the museum painting and building cabinets, the New York Post reports. He worked for the department for 36 years and retired in 2017. A fire captain who wor…
Cliffside Park-Edgewater, NJ
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Edgewater Defendant Indicted In $12M Go-Go Bar Theft Ring
An Edgewater man conspired with the owner of a shuttered go-go bar to use stolen credit card information – and illegally acquired gift cards – to steal more than $12 million, authorities said. Kevin Bae, 30, shared a bank account with the Morris County bar owner “into which millions of dollars were transferred” through the scheme, Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal said Friday. They generated the money through a variety of scams, including scaring elderly people over the phone into buying gift cards by pretending to be a grandchild who was in jail and needed bail money, Grewal said. The own…
Ossining, NY
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Employee In Westchester Sentenced In $231K Car Part Scam
A former employee of a Westchester auto dealership is going to spend a year behind bars after concocting an elaborate scheme to defraud his employer by stealing auto parts and selling them off for a profit online. Poughquag resident John Labarbera, 50, has been sentenced to a year in Westchester County Jail and must pay back more than $225,000 after pleading guilty to a grand larceny charge earlier this year for his scheme that lasted nearly four years while he was a parts manager at Curry Acura in Greenburgh. Labarbera admitted to convincing management of the dealership to sell auto parts …
Mount Pleasant, NY
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FBI Warns Of Scam Targeting Car Buyers
If it seems too good to be true, it might be, according to federal investigators. The FBI has issued an alert cautioning area residents to be aware of a national scam involving fraudulent online classified advertisements, offering vehicles that are not for sale, and some that never have been for sale, that are allegedly in their possession. According to the FBI, the fake advertisements tend to include photos that match the description of the alleged vehicle and a phone number or email address to contact the supposed seller. Once contact is established, the fraudster sends the intended buyer…
Fairfield, CT
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Two Charged With Selling $1.5M Of Items Stolen By Opioid Addicts In CT
Two men from Connecticut are facing time in prison after being found guilty of operating an elaborate fencing operation utilizing opioid addicts. Following nearly two weeks of deliberation, a jury this week found New Haven resident George Connelly, Jr., 48, and Branford reisdent William Reidell, 41, guilty of federal charges in relation to their roles in a large-scale fencing operation. According to evidence introduced at trial, Connelly and Paul Muzyka - who pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit the interstate transport of stolen property and one count of interstate transport of stolen pr…
New Canaan, CT
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Ex-New Canaan Employee Accused Of $150K Rolex Thefts Faces New Charge
A 31-year-old man already implicated in connection to $150,000 in stolen Rolex watches from his former employer is facing a second grand larceny charge as the “continuing and complicated” investigation into the thefts led to the reveal several discrepancies in his story, according to police in New Canaan. Wallingford resident Pierce Shortell, 31, a former employee at Manfredi Jewels in New Canaan surrendered himself at the New Canaan Police Department on Monday afternoon on an active arrest warrant for first-degree grand larceny following the investigation into the theft of the Rolex watches…
Stratford, CT
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Stratford Man Gets Prison Time For Role In Large-Scale Fencing Operation
STRATFORD, Conn. — A Stratford man on Thursday was sentenced to 18 months in prison for his role in a large-scale fencing operation, according to a statement from the U.S. Attorney’s office. From January 2012 to December 2014, Matthew Harwood, 43, and his co-conspirator Andrew Sacco would buy stolen goods from “boosters,” typically shoplifters with opioid addictions, and then resell the property at online websites such as Amazon and eBay, the statement reads. Harwood pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit the interstate transport of stolen property and one count of interstate t…
