A 43-year-old Bridgeton man who worked as a delivery contractor at an Amazon warehouse in Logan Township has been sentenced to five years in state prison for stealing packages worth more than $75,000. Akeem Johnson was sentenced Friday as part of a plea agreement, according to the Gloucester County Prosecutor’s Office.
Johnson worked for Globus Express, a third-party delivery contractor, according to NJ.com. He was responsible for taking pallets of packages from the Amazon warehouse and delivering them to U.S. Postal Service facilities, a role that put him in direct contact with high volumes of undelivered merchandise moving through the site.
Amazon began investigating Johnson after a large number of packages were reported as not delivered, the outlet’s report notes. According to an affidavit, Johnson admitted committing the thefts in May 2021, telling Amazon loss-prevention officials he used another employee’s access card to enter the warehouse and take undelivered package pallets meant for USPS facilities, according to Cat Country 107.3.
From a $274,000 Allegation to a Narrower Plea
When Logan Township Police charged Johnson in June 2021, they alleged he had stolen 8,824 Amazon packages valued at $274,483 beginning in November 2020, per the same Cat Country report. Those initial figures came from Logan Township Police’s affidavit of probable cause, filed as the case moved through the system…