A Whittier business owner was arrested after allegedly selling $1 million worth of goods that had been stolen from large cargo shipments, the Los Angeles Police Department said Tuesday.<\/p>\n
When investigators executed a search warrant at Shoes n Shoes on Slauson Avenue on Sept. 30, they found a variety of items inside 59 pallets that had been stolen from freight shipments along the Union Pacific Railroad and Burlington Northern & Santa Fe Railway.<\/p>\n
Some of the stolen goods included Yeti cups and jugs, as well as Nike, New Balance, Brooks and Sanuk shoes, according to the LAPD.<\/p>\n
The business owner, Wassem Saman, admitted to police that he had purchased much of his inventory from brokers or middlemen who illegally distribute stolen merchandise.<\/p>\n
Saman, 45, of Placentia, was booked on suspicion of receiving stolen property.<\/p>\n
The LAPD said the arrest was made possible through a multi-agency operation involving the Union Pacific Railroad Police, Burlington Northern & Santa Fe Police, Alameda Belt Line Police, Los Angeles Port Police and the Los Angeles District Attorney\u2019s Office Bureau of Investigation.<\/p>\n
Anyone with more information was urged to contact the LAPD’s Commercial Crimes Division at (213) 486-8766.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Whittier business owner was arrested after allegedly selling $1 million worth of goods that had been stolen…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":487329,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[3552,48,52,51,5015,47,50,49],"class_list":["post-487328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-crime-and-courts","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-lapd","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=487328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/487329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}