Overview
- The 40,000‑pound shipment of lobster meat vanished after a Dec. 12 pickup from Lineage Logistics in Taunton, Massachusetts en route to Costco warehouses in Illinois and Minnesota.
- Rexing Companies says thieves impersonated a legitimate carrier using spoofed emails, counterfeit credentials and altered truck markings, with tracking reportedly shut off within hours of departure.
- The broker reports working with the FBI and the Transportation Intermediaries Association as the investigation continues, and no arrests or recovery have been announced.
- A separate crab load disappeared after leaving the same Taunton warehouse on Dec. 2, and Maine officials reported 14 cages with roughly 40,000 oysters stolen on Nov. 22, indicating clustered incidents.
- Recent analyses describe schemes that compromise load‑board accounts and deploy malware to hijack deliveries, with federal efforts like Operation Boiling Point responding to cargo‑theft losses measured in the tens of billions annually.