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A San Francisco tile showroom lost nearly $200,000 in merchandise after falling victim to a sophisticated cargo fraud scheme that impersonated global engineering firm AECOM, underscoring growing risks for small and midsize shippers amid rising freight theft nationwide. Claudia Visona, who runs Galleria Tile, a third-generation, women-owned business, said
Cook County Sheriff's investigators last week recovered 12 tons of a stolen substance with stimulant properties from a warehouse in Chicago's suburbs. Was it cocaine? Methamphetamine? No siree. It was coffee. Good old-fashioned joe. The Cook County Sheriff's Police Organized Retail Crime Unit reported
A cargo theft investigation has led to another discovery, this time at a warehouse in Bridgeview, Illinois. The Cook County Sheriff's Office said its Organized Retail Crime Unit was contacted by a supply chain earlier this month after a large shipment of Seeq protein powder was missing. Investigators
From a stolen load of lobsters to local warehouses filled with robbed supplements and food, just some of the cargo thefts that happened in recent days. Now, the Cook County sheriff's Office and rail operators are trying to fight back. High above the Norfolk Southern rail lines that