10 charged in Will Co. in theft ring with goods worth $7.5M
The Will County State's Attorney filed indictments against 10 people connected to a multi-state retail theft ring using millions of dollars operating in Chicago.There were 126 pallets of goods, with 278,000 items in all. Prosecutors said five people stole the products from stores all over the Chicago area. Then they put them on pallets and shipped them to another group of five suspects in California and New York.State's Attorney James Glasgow said around $7.
Search warrants were executed on October 6 in Chicago, Cicero, Oak Lawn, Bolingbrook and in California. Authorities officers got around $7.5 million dollars' worth of items and"evidence of a sophisticated criminal enterprise."
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