4 arrested in alleged cargo theft ring tied to Mexico

4 arrested in alleged cargo theft ring tied to Mexico

Authorities in Ventura County have arrested four people in connection with an alleged cargo theft ring responsible for stealing more than $1.5 million in goods. Detectives served search warrants at locations across the region – homes, storage facilities, and businesses. They found stolen cargo at every site, and the big-ticket items were guns, drugs, and cash, the Ventura County Sheriff's Office said in a news release on Monday. Victor Alvarez, …

4 linked to California-based cargo theft ring tied to Mexico arrested

An estimated $1.5 million in stolen cargo was recovered from homes and businesses across Southern California, according to the Ventura County Sheriff's Department.

The story seemed written. If there was a place where the coach was living under constant threat, it was the State of Mexico, the statistics repeated it year after year, the maps confirmed it and the transporters knew it from the first kilometer, but something changed. At the start of 2025, Puebla, that entity that used to be some lines below in the reports, was written at the same level. Literally, the same percentage of robberies as the State o…

Insurance costs, fraud and cargo theft hit Landstar’s Q1

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Camarillo-based cargo theft leads to ring takedown

Between Dec. 16, 2024, and Jan. 5, 2025, a Southern California-based cargo theft crew targeted the city of Camarillo, committing a series of auto and cargo thefts, with $1.5 million