‘A very sophisticated crime’: $400K in seafood stolen in transit to Costco

Two heists have left Costco searching for $400,000 worth of oysters and lobster stolen during transit to its stores in Illinois and Minnesota.

Both thefts occurred in Taunton, Massachusetts on Dec. 2 and Dec. 12, where the thieves used a fraudulent trucking company to arrange a pickup from the Lineage Logistics warehouse, according to KIRO 7.

“The carrier we hired impersonated a real carrier,” said Dylan Rexing, CEO of Rexing Companies. “They had a spoofed email address. They changed the name on the side of the truck. They made a fake certified driver’s license. It’s a very sophisticated crime.”…

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