{"id":113747,"date":"2011-07-15T14:52:14","date_gmt":"2011-07-15T09:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=113747"},"modified":"2011-07-15T14:52:14","modified_gmt":"2011-07-15T09:52:14","slug":"us-armenian-man-implicated-in-cargo-theft-ring-accused-of-stealing-3-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/07\/15\/us-armenian-man-implicated-in-cargo-theft-ring-accused-of-stealing-3-million.html","title":{"rendered":"US Armenian Man Implicated in Cargo Theft Ring, Accused of Stealing $3 Million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police are asking for the public&#8217;s help tracking down thieves accused of stealing millions in cargo from warehouses across Southern California, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktla.com\/news\/landing\/ktla-cargo-warehouse-thefts,0,404015.story\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\">ktla.com reports<\/span><\/strong><\/a>.<br \/>\nAuthorities say they believe 51-year-old Ashot Shaumyan is part of a larger cargo theft ring, which to date has stolen $3 million in goods.<\/p>\n<p>The suspects provide false paperwork to freight brokers at shipping and receiving locations in order to commit the crimes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These suspects are infiltrating the Internet and stealing other trucking companies&#8217; identities and getting orders and pick-up numbers to come to these facilities&#8230; and pick up merchandise,&#8221; LAPD Officer Mark Zavala told KTLA.<\/p>\n<p>Police have released surveillance video that they say shows Shaumyan backing his truck up to a storage facility, filing out paperwork using a false license and stealing a truckload of shrimp.<\/p>\n<p>In an other incident, authorities say he got away with $400,000 in lobster.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We believe he&#8217;s part of a ring of other suspects that have been plaguing the surrounding counties, and even other states doing this same type of crime,&#8221; Zavala said.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities say they believe 51-year-old Ashot Shaumyan is part of a larger cargo theft ring, which to date has stolen&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":113718,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[17197,28902,29792,29793,26056],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113747"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113747\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}