A multi-organization investigation involving U.S. Attorney for the Southern District Preet Bharara, the FBI and the town of Yorktown Police Department has led to criminal charges for four men in connection with the theft of more than $1 million worth of computers bound for public school students.
Three of the four defendants ”” brothers Anton and Gjon Saljanin and Ujka Vulaj ”” are from the village of Yorktown Heights.
The fourth defendant, Carlos Caceres, is from the Bronx.
According to Bharara”™s office, on or about Jan. 15, 2014, Anton Saljanin, a driver for a Yorktown Heights shipping company, and his brother Gjon drove a truck from Yorktown Heights to an unspecified technology company [[[company names? not provided]]] located in Massachusetts to pick up a shipment of approximately 1,200 Apple MacBook Air laptop computers.
The computers were to be delivered to two public high schools located in New Jersey and were valued at more than $1 million.
The next morning, Anton Saljanin told Yorktown police the truck was stolen from a parking lot in Yorktown Heights. Later that day, he told police he was driving around looking for the truck when he happened to spot it from the highway in a parking lot in Danbury, Connecticut.
An investigation including security footage of the area, cell phone tracking information and the defendants’ own statements suggested to police a different sequence of events in which the Saljanin brothers drove the truck to long-time friend Vulaj’s house [[[where? Unspecified, changed accomplice to the name of the individual, who is listed as a Yorktown heights resident]]] to unload the computers, then left the truck in Danbury with a broken window in an attempt to make it appear as if it had been stolen and abandoned.
Detectives found broken glass on the scene in the Danbury parking lot but found no broken glass on the scene in the Yorktown Heights parking lot, suggesting that the window had been broken at the Danbury parking lot rather than at the Yorktown Heights parking lot, according to Bharara’s office.
The multi-organizational investigation also determined from about January 2014 through at least April 2014, Vulaj and co-worker Caceres illegally sold dozens of Apple MacBook Air computers, which had a retail value of approximately $1,000 each, for $500 to $800 cash in under-the-table transactions in which the laptops changed hands in plain cardboard packaging. [[[where did they work? Anton worked at the Yorktown Heights shipping company, the others are not mentioned. what were their jobs there? to whom did they sell these things? were these from the same lot of computers meant for the schools the other two dopes ripped off? If so, we say above those computers were in Massachusetts. Seems a long way to go for a guy from Yorktown Heights and the Bronx to go to find work. Did they know the other two dopes? Please see me regarding these last questions]]]
Charges against the four men include conspiracy, theft from an interstate shipment, interstate transportation of stolen property as well as receipt, possession and sale of stolen property.
All defendants face up to a 10 years in prison if found guilty and given the maximum penalty.
The press relesease does not exactly say
Where did caceres and vulaj work
not public
who did they sell them to
how did they sell them
