Five Bay Area men have been charged with robbing some 200 iPhones from an Oregon business, with two of the suspects posing as FBI agents during the robbery, federal authorities said.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of California said in a press release on Tuesday that a federal grand jury indicted Jordan Cantie, 48; Cankun He, 31; Hailong Ma, 30; Robert Maynard, 41; and Yuxiang Wei, 25; on charges of conspiring to rob a Portland reshipping company of Apple iPhones and several cameras.
Maynard, already in custody on an unrelated charge, made his initial federal court appearance on Tuesday. Ma and Wei were arrested on Aug. 1, while He was arrested on Monday; all three appeared in court on Monday, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said. Cantie is still at large while the other four defendants remained in custody on Tuesday…