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UPS Employee in Aberdeen Pleads Guilty in $174,000 Jewelry Theft Scheme

A judge suspended the 10-year term to allow the defendant to work toward restitution for victims.

Overview

  • Investigators say the preloader removed jewelry parcels from trucks at the Aberdeen sorting hub, hid them in totes, and pawned the contents.
  • Surveillance footage and UPS security identified the suspect, with pawn records tying recovered items to shipments from Saxon's Diamond Center, Zales, Jared and Kay Jewelers.
  • Police tallied about 23 stolen packages valued at roughly $174,000, with losses linked to victims in Harford and Baltimore counties.
  • Thefts occurred between December 2024 and May 2025, and July 2025 charges and search warrants produced additional recovered jewelry.
  • A Harford County judge imposed a 10-year sentence that was fully suspended to enable employment for restitution, and a co-worker named as a co-conspirator has a separately postponed case.