Police interrupted an alleged scheme to divert a commercial shipment of nearly 29,000 pounds of frozen seafood after a suspect allegedly impersonated a freight broker.<\/p>\n
North Arlington police responded to Porete Avenue on Oct. 3 following a report of suspicious activity involving cargo being transferred from a tractor-trailer. When officers arrived, they found two people unloading pallets of frozen seafood from a refrigerated tractor-trailer into a box truck.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe investigation revealed the tractor-trailer driver had received a series of telephone calls and text messages from an individual falsely representing himself as being associated with the freight broker responsible for the shipment,\u201d North Arlington police said in a statement.<\/p>\n
Investigators said the driver was instructed to divert part of the seafood shipment to North Arlington, where it would be transferred to another truck.<\/p>\n
When the driver arrived, Jonathan Pollaguari, 18, of the Bronx, and a juvenile showed up in a 26-foot box truck and began loading pallets of seafood from the tractor-trailer, according to police.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs the transfer continued, the legitimacy of the transaction was questioned,\u201d police said.<\/p>\n
Investigators determined that Pollaguari and the juvenile had no affiliation with a legitimate freight broker and were allegedly posing as representatives of the company in an effort to take possession of the shipment.<\/p>\n
The cargo, valued at more than $273,000, consisted primarily of frozen shrimp, along with salmon, conch meat and branzino.<\/p>\n
Pollaguari and the juvenile were taken into custody.<\/p>\n
Pollaguari was charged with theft by deception, false representation, conspiracy and employing a juvenile in the commission of a crime. He was also issued summonses for driving without a license, failure to possess an insurance card and operating an uninsured motor vehicle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police interrupted an alleged scheme to divert a commercial shipment of nearly 29,000 pounds of frozen seafood after…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":368014,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-368013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368013","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=368013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368013\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/368014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}