Cargo Theft
Larsen AVR Group is on retainer to conduct cargo theft investigations on behalf of a risk assessment company whose clients include long-haul trucking companies. We work closely with federal, state and local law enforcement personnel who participate in cargo theft task forces, and our investigative efforts have resulted in the recovery of stolen cargo ranging from consumer electronic products to tobacco products worth several million dollars.

In addition, our efforts have identified truck drivers who were complicit in the thefts as well as drivers who used and were under the influence of illegal substances while operating tractor/trailer rigs.

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• A hijacking in the desert. One day, in the early morning hours, an interstate truck loaded with $2 million in tobacco products was nearing its destination, a rural warehouse in Southern California, when it was forced to stop on a road blocked due to construction. Suddenly, several men emerged from the shadows, assaulted the drivers with pepper spray, then handcuffed and threw them in the back of the truck. The hijackers drove around the area, then released the drivers on the side of the road before driving the truck away. Larsen AVR Group was called right away and, working with law enforcement, was able to determine, first, that the drivers themselves were not involved in the robbery. Surveilling the area of the hijacking, we quickly located a trailer parked behind a warehouse and placed it under surveillance. Later that same day, when the trailer was moved to another location, we followed it, and, again working with law enforcement, seized the trailer and arrested the men in the process of unloading the stolen merchandise, solving the crime on the same day of the hijacking.

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