A federal grand jury indicted an owner of the Los Angeles shoe store Coolkicks for his alleged part in a cross-country scheme to steal products from Nike.
After a years-long joint investigation, the Los Angeles Police Department and FBI arrested Coolkicks co-owner Bereket Abraham, 39, and 11 others for allegedly using the popular Melrose business to steal more than $2 million worth of shoes from Nike’s Memphis warehouse between 2021 and 2024.
Investigators said Abraham and another suspect, Roy Lee Harvey Jr., used the store’s UPS equipment to create falsified shipping labels. The pair sent the labels to accomplices working at the warehouse, who placed them on the desired shipments, according to LAPD. Officers said the falsified labels rerouted cargo to Coolkicks and other co-conspirators…