Cargo handlers arrested for stealing gold bars at Los Angeles International Airport, prosecutors say
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Two men have been arrested for allegedly stealing gold bars while working as cargo handlers at Los Angeles International Airport, federal prosecutors said.
Two men have been arrested for allegedly stealing gold bars while working as cargo handlers at Los Angeles International Airport, federal prosecutors said. Marlon Moody, 38, and Brian Benson, 35, both of Los Angeles, were taken into custody without incident on Tuesday morning by agents with the FBI. Both men were charged with conspiracy as well as theft of interstate and foreign shipment, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California. It was not immediately clear whether they had obtained attorneys who could speak on their behalf. In a federal grand jury indictment filed Tuesday, prosecutors alleged that Moody and Benson snatched the gold bars last year while they were working for Alliance Ground International, a Miami-based private company that provides airline cargo handling services at 13 airports across the country, including Los Angeles. It was unclear whether Moody and Benson were still employees of Alliance Ground International. ABC News has reached out to the company for comment. On the evening of April 22, 2020, a shipment of 2,000 gold bars -- each weighing about 2 pounds and valued at some $56,000 a piece -- arrived at Los Angeles International Airport on a Singapore Airlines flight. The gold was being shipped by a Canadian bank from Australia to New York, with a layover in Los Angeles, according to prosecutors.More Related News