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Whew! Amazon Delivery Drivers Involved In $10 Million Theft Ring

<div>&num;Roommates&comma; talk about finessing the system&period; Have you ever heard of a &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;five finger” employee discount&quest; Yeah&comma; me either&period; Well&comma; two Amazon delivery drivers must have&comma; because they were busted for their involvement in a &dollar;10 million theft ring of stolen goods from Amazon&period;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<div><&sol;div>&NewLine;<div>According to a search warrant affidavit that was unsealed in Seattle’s U&period;S&period; District Court&comma; two storefront businesses that posed as pawn shops&comma; bought stolen goods from shop lifters and shipped them to Amazon warehouses to be resold online&period;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<div><&sol;div>&NewLine;<div>You may be asking what part did the Amazon drivers play in this theft ring&period; Well&comma; the two drivers were originally hired by Amazon to travel to Seattle-Tacoma International Airport&comma; pick up items that were being returned to Amazon&comma; and then bring them to an Amazon warehouse south of Seattle&period; However&comma; the two men habitually stole the goods and sold them to the pawn shops&period;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<div><&sol;div>&NewLine;<div>The investigation started last summer when a police detective in Auburn&comma; a small suburban town in Seattle&comma; was going through a record of pawn shop sales and noticed that one man made 57 transactions&period; The man turned out to be one of the Amazon delivery drivers&period;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<div><&sol;div>&NewLine;<div>According to the FBI&comma; the ringleader received at least &dollar;10 million in the past six years&comma; selling items on Amazon&period; Although no charges have been filed yet&comma; investigators have raided both pawnshops and the home of the man believed to be the ringleader&period;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<div><&sol;div>&NewLine;<div>On Wednesday&comma; during their visit to one of the pawn shops&comma; investigators spoke to Aleksandr Pavlovskiy&comma; 44&comma; of Auburn&period; The man opened the door&comma; identified himself as Alex and told The Associated Press that his buildings was legitimate&comma; 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