Overview
- The shipment was loaded at the Lineage Logistics cold storage facility in Taunton on Dec. 12 and never reached Costco warehouses in Illinois and Minnesota.
- The FBI is investigating the disappearance with coordination reported among Midwest field offices, and no suspects have been publicly identified.
- Rexing Companies reports tactics consistent with organized cargo crime, including spoofed emails, fake credentials, and burner phones to impersonate carriers.
- Accounts differ on whether the lobsters were live, with NBC and Sky News reporting they were not; Costco has not responded to requests for comment.
- Rexing says the $400,000 loss is significant for a mid-sized broker, and the Boston Globe reports a separate crab shipment was stolen from the same Taunton facility earlier in December.