A Jersey City man will spend the next four and a half years in federal prison after helping run a cargo theft ring that hit logistics warehouses across New Jersey and Pennsylvania, taking off with everything from military computers to luxury fragrances.
Derek Spivey, 38, was sentenced on June 1, 2026, to 48 months behind bars for his role in the conspiracy. Because the crimes violated the terms of his supervised release from an older felony firearm conviction, U.S. District Judge Edward S. Kiel tacked on an extra eight months to his sentence.
Spivey had previously pleaded guilty to an information charging him with conspiracy to transport stolen goods, alongside a separate guilty plea for the supervised release violation.
Court documents lay out a string of highly lucrative warehouse burglaries carried out by Spivey and his co-conspirators, Jamil Bethea, Jamal Reid, and Rasheed Sharpe. The crew targeted trailers parked at shipping hubs, broke into them, and then hauled the stolen merchandise back into New Jersey to flip it for cash…