Using an innovative tactic, thieves took $400,000 worth of lobster from Costco shops.
According to Dylan Rexing, president and chief executive of Rexing Companies, a freight company that was in charge of transporting the crustaceans, the stolen lobsters were picked up in Taunton, Massachusetts, and were on their way to stores in Illinois and Minnesota when they vanished, NBC News reports.
The Indiana-based business claims that the suspects obtained access to the freight by pretending to be legitimate truckers using a fictitious ID.
Rexing claims that the theft was consistent with a growing trend in which thieves impersonate as legitimate carriers and use burner phones and counterfeit emails to seize valuable cargo while it is being transported.
