Monday, December 29, 2025

$400K Lobster Heist Exposes Cargo Theft, total cost of cargo theft in the US per year is between $15 billion and $35 billion

Bad news! What is the FBI or local law enforcement doing about it?

"Thieves stole $400,000 worth of lobsters bound for Costco stores in Illinois and Minnesota by impersonating legitimate carriers with spoofed emails and burner phones after picking up the shipment in Taunton, Massachusetts.

The FBI is investigating what appears to be part of an organized cargo theft ring, marking the second major seafood theft from the same Massachusetts facility in the same month.

Cargo theft costs the U.S. economy between $15 billion and $35 billion annually, prompting Homeland Security Investigations to launch Operation Boiling Point earlier this year, targeting organized theft groups. ..."

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