A Long Island man is facing federal charges over a series of cargo heists that netted nearly 34,000 pounds of frozen snow crab and a tractor-trailer full of name-brand cologne, worth more than $750,000 in total.
Romoy Forbes, 31, used hacked email addresses to pose as a driver from actual trucking firms, according to an FBI probable cause affidavit that was unsealed Thursday. Then, instead of delivering the stolen goods to the customers that had paid for them, Forbes and a crew of unnamed co-conspirators simply fenced the illicit merchandise on the black market, the affidavit states.
