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.