Overview
- Los Angeles County Sheriff's detectives serving a search warrant in Vernon recovered about $4 million in stolen goods and arrested one person on a receiving stolen property charge.
- The Major Crimes Bureau’s Cargo Criminal Apprehension Team found a cache spanning consumer and industrial items that included nicotine pouches, TVs, shoes, printers, speakers, cooling gear and cosmetics.
- Authorities have not confirmed whether the seized nicotine pouches match ALP Supply’s March theft of more than 378,000 ALP Drifter tins, for which the company offered a $100,000 reward.
- Sgt. David Pantoja said the arrestee is a lower‑level player rather than the organizer, and the case is being sent to the district attorney for charging decisions.
- Pantoja said cargo theft has surged in Southern California, often through hacked company email that yields genuine bills of lading, with victims spanning brands such as ALP Drifter, Foot Locker, Epson, DeepCool AI, Renkus‑Heinz, Medicube and Ulta Beauty.