Incident:  Strategic Theft – Electronics Recovery  

Yesterday, Overhaul enacted a full recovery on a load of consumer electronics in Colton, California that had been stolen by deception from it’s origin in Torrance.   

The shipment was picked up from origin in Torrance, CA by fraudulent actors. The Overhaul GSOC noted the pattern of behavior that indicated a possible strategic theft in progress and escalated to the customer and to the Overhaul LE Connect team.  

The shipment had been picked up in Torrance before being taken to City of Industry where the bad actors confirmed the contents of the load before redirecting it to a location in Colton, CA.  

The Overhaul LE Connect coordinated efforts between the California Highway Patrol Cargo Theft Interdiction Program, the Los Angeles PD, and our private on the ground response team, enhanced with real time locations, sensor data, and pictures of the trailer and tractor via the Overhaul Risk Monitoring platform, to locate and recover the shipment fully intact and return it to origin.  

Overhaul recommends that shippers of targeted and high demand or high value products be extremely thorough in vetting brokers and carriers in their network, as well as documenting all drivers, tractors, and trailers that arrive to pick up cargo with thorough pictures that include all identifying markings on the tractor/trailer, as well as the driver and his CDL.   

Particularly with strategic or fraudulent theft methods, contextual intelligence, remote compliance monitoring, real time visibility, and an immediate escalation process with a path to effective law enforcement engagement are critical to recognizing and recovering stolen cargo.