{"id":125907,"date":"2026-02-07T02:05:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T02:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/125907\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T02:05:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T02:05:13","slug":"worcester-warehouse-theft-man-accused-of-stealing-33750-pounds-of-crab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/125907\/","title":{"rendered":"Worcester warehouse theft: Man accused of stealing 33,750 pounds of crab"},"content":{"rendered":"

A 31-year-old Jamaican national living in New York was arrested Thursday in connection with a scheme to steal truckloads of cargo like frozen snow crab and blueberries, then sell the items for profit, the U.S. Attorney\u2019s office for Massachusetts said.<\/p>\n

Romoy Forbes, who lived in Deer Park, New York, is charged with interstate transportation of stolen goods and conspiracy to commit that offense, U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts Leah Foley announced. He will make an initial appearance in federal court in the Eastern District of New York before being brought to Massachusetts.<\/p>\n

On July 15, 2025, prosecutors say Forbes stole 33,750 pounds of frozen snow crabs, worth $35,000, from a warehouse in Worcester. Leading up to the theft, a co-conspirator hacked into the email account of a trucking carrier company and, pretending to work for the company, communicated with a transportation business to ship the goods to a customer in Jacksonville, Florida, Foley\u2019s office said.<\/p>\n

Forbes is accused of arriving at the Worcester warehouse and pretending to work for the trucking company. There, he loaded the seafood in his truck and drove off, taking the crabs not to Florida but to a grocery store in New York, where he took a picture of the packaged crabs, according to Foley\u2019s office. <\/p>\n

Weeks earlier, on June 25, 2025, prosecutors say Forbes stole a shipment of blueberries in Winslow Junction, New Jersey, in much the same fashion.<\/p>\n

\"BlueberryFederal prosecutors say Romoy Forbes impersonated trucking company workers to steal snow crab, blueberries and cologne from warehouses across three states in 2025.U.S. Attorney’s office<\/p>\n

A co-conspirator hacked into the email of a different trucking company, then contacted and contracted with a transportation business to ship the goods to Illinois, Foley\u2019s office said. Forbes is accused of showing up to the warehouse holding the goods, pretending to work for the carrier company, and loading the fruit into his truck.<\/p>\n

Instead of driving to Illinois, prosecutors say Forbes arranged to sell the fruit to a contact in his phone named \u201cmy customer for everything.\u201d<\/p>\n

After those two thefts, on July 25, 2025, Forbes is accused of conspiring to steal roughly $433,830 worth of cologne in Ronkonkoma, New York. Much like the other two heists, prosecutors say, a co-conspirator hacked into the email account of a trucking carrier company, and then, impersonating the company, contracted with a transportation business to ship the goods to Los Angeles. <\/p>\n

Forbes is accused of arriving to the warehouse holding the cologne, pretending to work for the carrier, and loading the cologne into his own truck and driving away. Instead of delivering the cologne to the customer in Los Angeles, Forbes is accused of offering to sell it to his \u201ccustomer for everything,\u201d who agreed to buy it after receiving a video, Foley\u2019s office said. <\/p>\n

The charge of interstate transportation of stolen goods carries a sentence of up to 10 years in prison. The charge of conspiracy to commit that offense carries a sentence of up to five years in prison. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 31-year-old Jamaican national living in New York was arrested Thursday in connection with a scheme to steal…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":125908,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":{"0":"post-125907","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-the-bronx","8":"tag-bronx","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-city","11":"tag-nyc","12":"tag-the-bronx","13":"tag-the-bronx-headlines","14":"tag-the-bronx-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125907\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}