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Thief Gets Up to 9 Years in Jail for Stealing $1,000,000 in Apple Devices

Thief Gets Up to 9 Years in Jail for Stealing $1,000,000 in Apple Devices

Posted June 22, 2012 at 5:07pm by iClarified
Shaheed Bilal, 29, has been sentenced to 4.5 to 9 years in jail for running a cybercrime ring that used fake credit cards to purchase more than $1,000,000 in iPhones, iPads, and MacBooks, reports The Chicago Tribune.

The ring, which also included Bilal's brothers and girlfriend, purchased more than $1 million worth of iPads, iPhones and MacBooks over 2 1/2 years starting in 2008 and sold them to dealers in stolen goods in Brooklyn, N.Y. They purchased credit card numbers online, probably from traffickers in Eastern Europe, according to a joint investigation by the Manhattan District Attorney and the United States Secret Service.

Bilal pleaded guilty to grand larceny in the second degree and was sentenced Thursday in a New York state court in Manhattan.


According to the prosecution Bilal's brothers, Ali, 25, Isaac, 27, and Rahim, 23, recruited the shoppers and his girlfriend, Ophelia Alleyne, 31, handled operations when he was jailed in another case. Ali and Rahim Bilal pleaded guilty and were sentenced to 1 to 3 years and 2 to 6 years respectively. Alleyne pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 4 - 12 years.

Read More [via MacWorld]


Thief Gets Up to 9 Years in Jail for Stealing $1,000,000 in Apple Devices
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Adcpolo
Adcpolo - June 22, 2012 at 7:47pm
Key words "up to"
87c0e17
87c0e17 - June 22, 2012 at 6:24pm
They didnt steal iDevices, they bought them with stolen money
Tony
Tony - June 22, 2012 at 5:29pm
Good jobs! Hate cyber criminal!
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