Reseller Uses Fake UPS Labels To Steal $2 Million in Nike Goods

Over the past few years, stolen Nike shipments have been at the top of news from broken into cargo facilities to uncovered warehouses.

A breakthrough in the ongoing investigations have been made as Los Angeles Police Department charged Roy Lee Harvey, a 37-year-old Tennessee man, in connection to the case. The individual, who police say operated around LA, had the help of a Nike employee to execute the elaborate theft ring.

Detectives say that the suspects exploited loopholes at the heart of Nike’s distribution system in Memphis, the base where product is shipped nationwide. The thieves printed fake shipping labels and paid off employees at UPS and Nike in Tennessee and California to “deliberately misdirect or redirect” cartons of shoes to several locations in the Los Angeles area, according to detectives.

The Los Angeles Times report states that members would “intercept” packages with swapped labels and get ahold of them within the supply chain — docks, highways and warehouses. Packages would also be hijacked by swapping addresses with the shipping companies after they had left Nike’s warehouse.

Stay tuned to Nice Kicks as the story develops.