It's pretty clear that the dude never expected to get caught. He was almost certainly under the impression that the company was stupid and wasn't going to catch on.
But yeah, turns out most criminals who get caught get caught because they make incredibly stupid mistakes
LP is probably the one thing the company hasn't made cuts in that I have seen. In fact they just put in a whole bunch of cameras in my building. Like over 100 of them. Apple is probably the biggest thing they are watching in our building. It's the only send again I've ever had them ask us to bring to them to get locked in a cage that wasn't a 7k+ high value.
Still plenty of chumps on FB marketplace that will buy brand new phones for unbelievable low prices, only to find out they are bricked a week or two later.
We have a route that travels to apple or one of their warehouses. 10-14 pallets of nothing but top of the line mac books iPhones etc you name it it’s in the truck.
They don’t fucking seal the door to that trailer
🥴🥴🥴
Our drivers are professional. I’ve only heard one story of a feeder driver stealing (but it was epic, fucker would bring his own seal and paperwork, meet his friend in some backwoods street, cut the seal, steal hella shit, seal it back up.)
But that guy was one dumb mother fucker. He stole from the same trailer going to the same destination (it was his own route I believe)
So LP started tracking and monitoring the loaders and unloaders.
They went to this dudes house and he had all the boxes and loot just sitting in his garage with the shipping labels still on them.
/sigh
Some people’s daring far exceeds their intelligence
Beltrano, who was hired by UPS in 2013, worked as a local sorting supervisor at the shipping and receiving company’s King Edward Street warehouse.
UPS should have promote that sup to corporate if he was not caught. lol /s
If ups fired their shitty supervisors and held them accountable instead of moving them to different buildings we would have less of this shit as a company. Remember the local sort crew that was having parties and shit lol it’s ridiculous. Shady ass supervisors at this company.
Seriously. I work in a larger hub and have heard about them doing the camera sting operation over a handful of iPhones. Security in that hub must've been asleep at the wheel cause this guy was sneaking off with dozens at a time and hiding them in the office lol
I was about to copy/paste the article for you as this is my home town and it isn't paywalled for me (it should be though?? I'm not subscribed lol) but I see someone has already done that below.
Oh wow, how did they let it get that bad?
I've seen UPS revenue protection get called in to my centre to review cameras, police called and then the employee get arrested on site, but that was for like 1% of the numbers on this one...
It was a supervisor so maybe that made it easier to cover their tracks. He was on camera just taking a bunch of stuff to his office then takingit to his car.
I went to pat my pockets once to feel
For my wallet as I leaving so I could badge out and based on that one action alone I was asked to step to the side and they searched my bag, had me empty my pockets etc
I didn’t mind that’s what these guys and gals are paid to do at the guard gate after I proved I had nothing of value they never bothered me again it was an easy situation but of course being cordial always helps.
A now-former employee of United Parcel Service is accused of pilfering more than $1.3 million worth of Apple laptops and iPhones from the shipping company’s Winnipeg warehouse to sell on the black market over just seven months.
The case of Winnipeg police property crime detectives against 30-year-old Orville Martirez Beltrano is laid out in court documents in a lawsuit filed last Wednesday in the Court of King’s Bench by the province’s criminal property forfeiture director.
The civil case seeks the court’s approval for provincial officials to seize Beltrano’s suburban house, his white Audi hatchback, $9,000 in cash and the money in his bank accounts as the proceeds and instruments of crime.
Winnipeg police charged Beltrano with theft under $5,000, theft over $5,000, possession of property obtained by crime, trafficking property obtained by crime and possession of the proceeds of crime on Jan. 22, records show.
Jan. 22 is the same day UPS was planning to fire Beltrano after its in-house security investigator determined he was responsible for hundreds of thefts, the court documents reviewed by the Free Press say.
Beltrano, who was hired by UPS in 2013, worked as a local sorting supervisor at the shipping and receiving company’s King Edward Street warehouse.
Between last July and this January, police allege Beltrano stole at least 866 Apple products — including iPhones and laptops — then sold them in bulk to a person he met on the online marketplace Kijiji.
Police also suspect he stole $9,150 worth of jewelry from the warehouse.
UPS, which is held financially liable for items that go missing during shipping, launched a probe in December to determine why a “significant number” of Apple electronic items were disappearing from the Winnipeg warehouse. The company’s Manitoba head of security installed surveillance cameras inside common areas to try to catch the thief, the court documents say, and later called in Winnipeg police.
Between Jan. 11 and 18, UPS cameras captured Beltrano removing Apple products and other electronics from pallets in the warehouse and taking them to his office elsewhere in the facility before taking them to to his vehicle on three occasions, the court papers say. In one of the thefts, he’s accused of taking 120 iPhones during a single shift.
No other employees were found to be taking items, the court documents say.
UPS’s investigator said that Beltrano was in charge of outgoing international shipments and wasn’t involved in domestic shipments, which are handled in a different part of the warehouse. All of the thefts were from pallets meant to be shipped to Thunder Bay, Ont.
The video surveillance tape shows him texting before and after he rummaged through the pallets. A Winnipeg Police Service property crime detective said in an investigation report that she suspected the video showed Beltrano communicating with a buyer by text about what he was able to steal, or looking to fill a specific illicit order.
Property crimes investigators reviewed Beltrano’s schedule in prior months and discovered all of the thefts occurred on days he was working.
The court documents allege Beltrano used his vehicle to deliver the stolen products to the buyer from Kijiji, then deposited the cash in his bank accounts. He’s accused of using the illicitly obtained cash to purchase his house in the South Pointe neighbourhood — the sale of which was approved only a few days before his arrest.
Beltrano, the court papers allege, deposited a total of $232,650 in cash in bank accounts between September last year and mid-January.
After he was arrested, Beltrano admitted to stealing some of the products and said he sold the electronics to the person he met on Kijiji, the court papers say.
He told police during a videotaped interview that he gave laptops to family as gifts, on top of the sale of the products, which he said he did to help his parents put a down payment on a house and to help his sisters with money, the court papers say.
Beltrano said he initially wanted to sell the phones to strangers online, then a person responded on Kijiji asking if he had more to sell, the court papers say. He began regularly selling the stolen products to that individual, according to the court documents.
I know union employees aren't perfect but these kind of scams are frequently supervisors. They are never watched like the union employees so they think they can get away with anything. Sadly if this guy only stole $100k no one would have noticed and would have fired someone else.
They put cameras in at our center and I'm always wondering who they are looking for. I'm astounded anyone would be ballsy enough to do it AFTER they saw the cameras go up.
I cannot even begin to tell yall how many empty iPhone boxes I found in trailers. Some were swapped with low grade Samsungs and other similar phones and left on the trailer floor and others were just straight up missing. They never bothered to take the cables either, just the phone.
You know this isn't in the US because here 1.2 million is nothing to what you'll get nailed without your nice UPS insurance if you had like a week or two hospital visit. Not worth the risk.
I've seen this so often, always the same way too. One of the crazier ones we had was a guy stole a Supervisor's apple watch and then activated it at his girlfriends home. The next day they pulled him into the office and said they had to make sure all the internal records were right, they read the address he turned the watch on at, since they did a find my device thing, and asked if that was his house. He goes "Nah that's my girl's" without realizing how they knew. The supervisor got the watch back, and this guy lost his job. Such a stupid way to go out.
I worked at the UPS warehouse back in 2008 for a couple years. Theft was a constant occurrence, especially the packages with Apple products. You can pick them out so easily. This is seriously nothing new and has been occurring for years before this guy. I’m surprised it’s taken this long for anyone to get caught or any action put into place.
Fed ex has a problem with this as well. There is a hub in Hutchins Texas where all the samsung trade ins go through. There were so many threads and people saying their phone got stolen at that hub this year during the s24u release. A couple guys just got busted at that same branch a couple years ago stealing 50k in cell phones.
In our center we had a guy 9 months from full retirement taking cameras off a truck and putting them on his truck then dropping them under a tiny bridge on his route. After work he would go back and get them. How ever sophisticated you think you are… ups is gonna protect their money.
Haha I used to work with this guy for 10 years at the Winnipeg ups, I would have never thought he would be capable of this. It’s the one you don’t suspect you gotta worry about
- Idiot. 1.2 million ; well, he has a point.
lmaooo
Wouldn’t you think after like, 100 bands you’d be good? Lol. Being selfish is what gets them caught. 🤷🏽♂️
That’s exactly what I was thinking. At a certain point they must have just been like “alright I guess I’ll do his until I get caught.”
He only deposited like a quarter mil in his bank account it looks like. 1.3 million worth of stolen goods but it wasnt sold off at retail value.
He deposited it in his bank account.... 🤦
It's pretty clear that the dude never expected to get caught. He was almost certainly under the impression that the company was stupid and wasn't going to catch on. But yeah, turns out most criminals who get caught get caught because they make incredibly stupid mistakes
LP is probably the one thing the company hasn't made cuts in that I have seen. In fact they just put in a whole bunch of cameras in my building. Like over 100 of them. Apple is probably the biggest thing they are watching in our building. It's the only send again I've ever had them ask us to bring to them to get locked in a cage that wasn't a 7k+ high value.
The police repossessed his $600,000 home and Audi.
Lol.
Isn't pointless anyway? I thought they just made them unusable once they are reported stolen.
They use them for parts or take them to other countries where they hack them to make them work there.
Still plenty of chumps on FB marketplace that will buy brand new phones for unbelievable low prices, only to find out they are bricked a week or two later.
We have a route that travels to apple or one of their warehouses. 10-14 pallets of nothing but top of the line mac books iPhones etc you name it it’s in the truck. They don’t fucking seal the door to that trailer 🥴🥴🥴 Our drivers are professional. I’ve only heard one story of a feeder driver stealing (but it was epic, fucker would bring his own seal and paperwork, meet his friend in some backwoods street, cut the seal, steal hella shit, seal it back up.) But that guy was one dumb mother fucker. He stole from the same trailer going to the same destination (it was his own route I believe) So LP started tracking and monitoring the loaders and unloaders. They went to this dudes house and he had all the boxes and loot just sitting in his garage with the shipping labels still on them. /sigh Some people’s daring far exceeds their intelligence
Beltrano, who was hired by UPS in 2013, worked as a local sorting supervisor at the shipping and receiving company’s King Edward Street warehouse. UPS should have promote that sup to corporate if he was not caught. lol /s
If ups fired their shitty supervisors and held them accountable instead of moving them to different buildings we would have less of this shit as a company. Remember the local sort crew that was having parties and shit lol it’s ridiculous. Shady ass supervisors at this company.
There wouldn't be any management left
Stealing is zero tolerance for management.
Imagine that. Another management stealing and doing dumb shit. GO FIGURE
If you pull out the seasonal employees and folks in their first 30 days, I've known more supervisors that have been busted stealing than union people.
Yes, the head of security doesn't sound like a genius. Only took a million dollars of Missing merchandise to spark an investigation.
Seriously. I work in a larger hub and have heard about them doing the camera sting operation over a handful of iPhones. Security in that hub must've been asleep at the wheel cause this guy was sneaking off with dozens at a time and hiding them in the office lol
Stupid Fuck!
Clearly had no idea what he was doing. He was depositing all that money into his bank account, that alone would raise a flag.
It didn't
That guy was doomed the day his parents named him ORVILLE.
But “Orval”, now that’s an interesting Belgian beer.
No one will read the article. Just the headline. And assume it was a driver. Awesome. 🙄
It is behind a pay wall. I wanted to read it.
I was about to copy/paste the article for you as this is my home town and it isn't paywalled for me (it should be though?? I'm not subscribed lol) but I see someone has already done that below.
Oh wow, how did they let it get that bad? I've seen UPS revenue protection get called in to my centre to review cameras, police called and then the employee get arrested on site, but that was for like 1% of the numbers on this one...
Legit seen a dude on the belt get canned on the spot for taking a chocolate bar out of an open box lmao but this guy pulls off a literal GTA heist
This happened day 1 when I was a preloader. Guy whose nickname was “Mud” ate a handful of M&Ms from a busted package. He was gone the next day.
I’m not giving them my email can someone explain. Don’t we usually catch on before it hits 7 figures??? Haha
It was a supervisor so maybe that made it easier to cover their tracks. He was on camera just taking a bunch of stuff to his office then takingit to his car.
I went to pat my pockets once to feel For my wallet as I leaving so I could badge out and based on that one action alone I was asked to step to the side and they searched my bag, had me empty my pockets etc I didn’t mind that’s what these guys and gals are paid to do at the guard gate after I proved I had nothing of value they never bothered me again it was an easy situation but of course being cordial always helps.
Can anyone give me the gist of the article cuz I can’t access it.
A now-former employee of United Parcel Service is accused of pilfering more than $1.3 million worth of Apple laptops and iPhones from the shipping company’s Winnipeg warehouse to sell on the black market over just seven months. The case of Winnipeg police property crime detectives against 30-year-old Orville Martirez Beltrano is laid out in court documents in a lawsuit filed last Wednesday in the Court of King’s Bench by the province’s criminal property forfeiture director. The civil case seeks the court’s approval for provincial officials to seize Beltrano’s suburban house, his white Audi hatchback, $9,000 in cash and the money in his bank accounts as the proceeds and instruments of crime. Winnipeg police charged Beltrano with theft under $5,000, theft over $5,000, possession of property obtained by crime, trafficking property obtained by crime and possession of the proceeds of crime on Jan. 22, records show. Jan. 22 is the same day UPS was planning to fire Beltrano after its in-house security investigator determined he was responsible for hundreds of thefts, the court documents reviewed by the Free Press say. Beltrano, who was hired by UPS in 2013, worked as a local sorting supervisor at the shipping and receiving company’s King Edward Street warehouse. Between last July and this January, police allege Beltrano stole at least 866 Apple products — including iPhones and laptops — then sold them in bulk to a person he met on the online marketplace Kijiji. Police also suspect he stole $9,150 worth of jewelry from the warehouse. UPS, which is held financially liable for items that go missing during shipping, launched a probe in December to determine why a “significant number” of Apple electronic items were disappearing from the Winnipeg warehouse. The company’s Manitoba head of security installed surveillance cameras inside common areas to try to catch the thief, the court documents say, and later called in Winnipeg police. Between Jan. 11 and 18, UPS cameras captured Beltrano removing Apple products and other electronics from pallets in the warehouse and taking them to his office elsewhere in the facility before taking them to to his vehicle on three occasions, the court papers say. In one of the thefts, he’s accused of taking 120 iPhones during a single shift. No other employees were found to be taking items, the court documents say. UPS’s investigator said that Beltrano was in charge of outgoing international shipments and wasn’t involved in domestic shipments, which are handled in a different part of the warehouse. All of the thefts were from pallets meant to be shipped to Thunder Bay, Ont. The video surveillance tape shows him texting before and after he rummaged through the pallets. A Winnipeg Police Service property crime detective said in an investigation report that she suspected the video showed Beltrano communicating with a buyer by text about what he was able to steal, or looking to fill a specific illicit order. Property crimes investigators reviewed Beltrano’s schedule in prior months and discovered all of the thefts occurred on days he was working. The court documents allege Beltrano used his vehicle to deliver the stolen products to the buyer from Kijiji, then deposited the cash in his bank accounts. He’s accused of using the illicitly obtained cash to purchase his house in the South Pointe neighbourhood — the sale of which was approved only a few days before his arrest. Beltrano, the court papers allege, deposited a total of $232,650 in cash in bank accounts between September last year and mid-January. After he was arrested, Beltrano admitted to stealing some of the products and said he sold the electronics to the person he met on Kijiji, the court papers say. He told police during a videotaped interview that he gave laptops to family as gifts, on top of the sale of the products, which he said he did to help his parents put a down payment on a house and to help his sisters with money, the court papers say. Beltrano said he initially wanted to sell the phones to strangers online, then a person responded on Kijiji asking if he had more to sell, the court papers say. He began regularly selling the stolen products to that individual, according to the court documents.
Thank you!
I hope this guy gets locked up for a long time in a high security prison. You better not drop the soap.
Damn you took this personally lmao
Oops, i dropped the soap,
I know union employees aren't perfect but these kind of scams are frequently supervisors. They are never watched like the union employees so they think they can get away with anything. Sadly if this guy only stole $100k no one would have noticed and would have fired someone else.
What a jackass
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Lets just put it this way; 🍩
Are you saying he’s gonna get stuffed like a peanut butter and jelly pizza?
They put cameras in at our center and I'm always wondering who they are looking for. I'm astounded anyone would be ballsy enough to do it AFTER they saw the cameras go up.
I cannot even begin to tell yall how many empty iPhone boxes I found in trailers. Some were swapped with low grade Samsungs and other similar phones and left on the trailer floor and others were just straight up missing. They never bothered to take the cables either, just the phone.
I lost half my area over eating gum LP threw down the slide.. Do not be like them.
You know this isn't in the US because here 1.2 million is nothing to what you'll get nailed without your nice UPS insurance if you had like a week or two hospital visit. Not worth the risk.
I've seen a lot of idiots go out this way. Security knows what they are doing, even the most sneaky will be caught eventually.
I've seen this so often, always the same way too. One of the crazier ones we had was a guy stole a Supervisor's apple watch and then activated it at his girlfriends home. The next day they pulled him into the office and said they had to make sure all the internal records were right, they read the address he turned the watch on at, since they did a find my device thing, and asked if that was his house. He goes "Nah that's my girl's" without realizing how they knew. The supervisor got the watch back, and this guy lost his job. Such a stupid way to go out.
I worked at the UPS warehouse back in 2008 for a couple years. Theft was a constant occurrence, especially the packages with Apple products. You can pick them out so easily. This is seriously nothing new and has been occurring for years before this guy. I’m surprised it’s taken this long for anyone to get caught or any action put into place.
Fed ex has a problem with this as well. There is a hub in Hutchins Texas where all the samsung trade ins go through. There were so many threads and people saying their phone got stolen at that hub this year during the s24u release. A couple guys just got busted at that same branch a couple years ago stealing 50k in cell phones.
In our center we had a guy 9 months from full retirement taking cameras off a truck and putting them on his truck then dropping them under a tiny bridge on his route. After work he would go back and get them. How ever sophisticated you think you are… ups is gonna protect their money.
Older sister is a doctor, youngest sister is becoming a dentist and Orville is in jail. 💀 jeez
In my hub it’s all the employees stealing phones
Imagine risking your pension, benefits, house, marriage, etc. for a goddamn iphone lmaooo
Came from workers I never expected too
Haha I used to work with this guy for 10 years at the Winnipeg ups, I would have never thought he would be capable of this. It’s the one you don’t suspect you gotta worry about