Four Men Held Over $1m MacBook Air Heist

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Four Men Held Over $1m MacBook Air Heist

Four men including a delivery driver are held after a huge shipment of MacBook Air devices were stolen and sold.

12:49 Monday 07 September 2015

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Four men have been accused of stealing a shipment of MacBook Air laptops worth $1m (£650,000).

The shipment was bound for two schools in New Jersey, but delivery driver Anton Saljanin reported the vehicle stolen after he parked it near his home in Yorktown Heights, New York, overnight.

The vehicle was later spotted in a parking lot just off the Interstate 84 road in Connecticut, but suspicions were raised when broken glass was found in the lot, and none was found where the vehicle was allegedly stolen.

That suggested that the window had been broken there, rather than in Yorktown.

This led police to draw the conclusion that the driver's story was false.

CCTV footage also revealed that the truck was stopped at a 7-11 store in Somers, New York, on the evening it was "stolen" and Saljanin and his brother Gjon - both later arrested - were seen outside the truck for a few minutes.

By 9.45pm, which is when the truck was supposed to have been stolen, it was heading towards the parking lot that Anton claimed it was stolen from.

It took a long route, past the home of another suspect, Ujka Vulaj. A fourth suspect, Carlos Caceres, was also later held.

The group is believed to have sold some of the laptops for just $500 (£330) each, which is less than half of their retail price.

The four men have since been released on bail.

They face a range of charges, carrying a maximum of between five and 10 years in prison for each charge.