If you're going to try and steal a whole bunch of iPads – $1.9 million worth of iPad Mini tablets, to be exact – you might want to keep quiet about your plans. Maybe you can run a Web search for, "iPad Mini shipment times" for a particular target, or query the phrase, "How to operate a forklift" instead of asking your friends for information and advice.
Unfortunately, that's exactly what Renel Rene Richardson didn't do: Instead, the worker at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport is alleged to have asked his co-workers for details about the nearly two-million-dollar shipment and how he might go about acquiring a forklift prior to the big steal.
According to a new report by the New York Post, federal agents have arrested Richardson in conjunction with his alleged role in the theft. Richardson, who works in the exact Cargo Air Services building where the iPad Mini shipment was stolen this past Monday night, is alleged to have been the lookout for the operation. Two other unknown individuals did the bulk of the work, loading two pallets of approximately 3,600 iPad Mini tablets onto a truck and driving out after being confronted by another airport employee.
It could have been worse for Apple, however. The thieves left three additional pallets of iPad Mini tablets untouched.
The stolen iPads apparently remain missing, even after Richardson accompanied investigators on a trip through Long Island Wednesday night in search of the vehicle used in the theft.
The Cargo Air Services building has a bit of a history when it comes to large robberies. Specifically, it was also the site of 1978's "Lufthansa Heist," a robbery that involved the stealing of $5 million in cash and $875,000 in jewels from vaults at the airport.
The story didn't end well for a number of those involved in the heist, however: Leader Jimmy Burke's worries that too many individuals knew about the various parts of the theft (or left evidence of their involvement) resulted in a number of murders of various people related, sometimes just tangentially, to the operation.
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