In early June, a trailer carrying roughly $13 million worth of computer server equipment set out across the Mojave Desert toward Fayetteville, Georgia, with an unmarked sedan trailing behind it, carrying two off-duty law enforcement officers hired to watch over the load. The truck was headed towards a sophisticated theft, part of a $100 million crime wave targeting tech gear headed for AI data centers.
\n\nNBC News reports that the escort vehicle never made it. Another car rammed the sedan on the interstate, forcing it to stop, while the trailer kept moving. It turned up a day later at a truck yard in Stockton, California, close to where the shipment had originally been picked up. The data center equipment, loaded onto pallets, had vanished.
\n\n“The accident was not an accident. The bad guys wanted that load, so they intentionally took out the escorts,” said Gerardo Pachuca, who spent nearly two decades on the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department’s cargo criminal apprehension team before launching his own private investigation firm. The truck driver may have been part of the plot by using a fake driver’s license, according to industry experts studying fraud and theft in logistics.
\n\nThree weeks later, it happened…
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