Overview
- Deputies with the Sheriff’s Organized Retail Crime Unit found a 53-foot trailer in the Austin neighborhood loaded with laptops worth about $1.5 million after a tip on May 14.
- The trailer had been reported stolen earlier in the week from Bridgeview.
- Investigators confirmed the truck attached to the trailer was also stolen.
- The sheriff’s office said the seizure stopped the laptops from being funneled into the secondary retail market.
- The case remains under investigation with no arrests announced and no public answer on how the thefts occurred.