{"id":366290,"date":"2025-12-24T16:46:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T16:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/366290\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T16:46:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T16:46:07","slug":"amazon-ajax-thefts-more-stolen-goods-found","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/366290\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Ajax thefts: more stolen goods found"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">More than $100,000 worth of electronics and merchandise has been found after five people, including two employees of an Amazon Fulfillment Centre in Ajax, allegedly stole around $2 million worth of items from the online retailer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">On Dec. 17, Durham police said they <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ctvnews.ca\/toronto\/local\/durham\/article\/two-amazon-employees-charged-after-2m-worth-of-goods-allegedly-stolen-in-ajax\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.ctvnews.ca\/toronto\/local\/durham\/article\/two-amazon-employees-charged-after-2m-worth-of-goods-allegedly-stolen-in-ajax\/\">launched an investigation<\/a> in November into a pair of employees who worked at the fulfillment centre located at 789 Salem Road.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Investigators said they were contacted by Amazon\u2019s loss prevention team after it was alleged the workers were responsible for the thefts that spanned over two years.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/ZYKP6CBT4ZGJ3E42ANMZ7STAKY.jpg\"  width=\"800\" height=\"450\"\/>Amazon theft Ajax, Ont. Five people were arrested after more than $2 million worth of merchandise was stolen from an Amazon warehouse in Ajax, Ont., according to police. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Durham police arrested the two employees before executing a search warrant at a home in Scarborough. Three more suspects from Scarborough and Newmarket were arrested as a result, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In total, police said they seized over $250,000 in high-end electronics and $50,000 in cash.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Investigators now say they located an additional $130,000 worth of electronics and merchandise during a search warrant at a storage locker in Newmarket on Dec. 23.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Mehul Baldevbhai Patel, 36, from Newmarket faces additional charges of possession of stolen property over $5000.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He was previously charged with possession of property obtained by crime for the purpose of trafficking, as well as various fraud and theft charges.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Investigators are asking anyone with additional information to contact them or Crime Stoppers anonymously.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">With files from Alex Arsenych <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More than $100,000 worth of electronics and merchandise has been found after five people, including two employees of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":366291,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[712,49,48,44],"class_list":{"0":"post-366290","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-canada","8":"tag-apple-news","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=366290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366290\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/366291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}