Sheriff: Man Steals iPods, Computers from Amazon Distribution Center
A 20-year-old man turns himself in on two counts of grand larceny for allegedly stealing 726 iPod touch players and 49 laptops.
COLUMBIA, SC — A Columbia man faces two counts of grand larceny charges for allegedly stealing 726 Apple iPod touch media players and 49 laptops worth about $160,000 from the Amazon distribution center in Cayce, according to the Lexington County Sheriff’s Department.
Todd Anthony Cofield, Jr., 20, a former employee of Amazon, turned himself in to authorities on Thursday after arrest warrants were issued on two counts of grand larceny involving items worth more than $10,000.
Arrest warrants allege that between April 20 and May 9 Cofield stole the media players from a freight trailer that he was entrusted to unload at the Amazon distribution center.
Police say Cofield also stole 49 Hewlett Packard mini laptop computers from a freight trailer on May 31.
Cofield did not unload the iPods or laptops from the freight trailers and submitted false documents to Amazon claiming he had unloaded them, according to the sheriff’s department.
FedEx Freight and security guards at the distribution center reported the stolen items to the sheriff’s department.
Cofield was released from the Lexington County Detention Center on Friday after posting bail totaling $50,000.
henry eroh
11:19 am on Sunday, July 8, 2012
who would ever guess- another fine upstanding citizen
kaboom
1:05 pm on Sunday, July 8, 2012
here here i agree ifelt the same way
Cement Mixer
2:31 pm on Sunday, July 8, 2012
Kind of like the priests right?
eddie ward
11:40 am on Sunday, July 8, 2012
He can only listen to one at a time in the pokey..(heavy on the pokey)
Pondo Sinatra
11:56 am on Sunday, July 8, 2012
Anyone surprised ????
kaboom
1:06 pm on Sunday, July 8, 2012
i'm not go as far as 1 can say about this it speaks for itself
Aljo
2:37 pm on Sunday, July 8, 2012
Pondo????
lesa tatum
3:26 pm on Sunday, July 8, 2012
I'm not it is usually a kid that does this kind of thing. At work they caught a lot of college kids who were doing the same thing. I live near an ivy league school.
Shireese Bell
12:10 pm on Sunday, July 8, 2012
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Abe Lincoln
12:31 pm on Sunday, July 8, 2012
Who would have thought that quoting the great emancipator would be considered racism? If i can't quote Honest Abe, can i quote Charles Darwin about evolution?
"Since the dawn of history the Negro has owned the continent of Africa – rich beyond the dream of poet’s fancy, crunching acres of diamonds beneath his bare black feet and yet he never picked one up from the dust until a white man showed to him its glittering light.
His land swarmed with powerful and docile animals, yet he never dreamed a harness, cart, or sled.
A hunter by necessity, he never made an axe, spear, or arrowhead worth preserving beyond the moment of its use. He lived as an ox, content to graze for an hour.
In a land of stone and timber he never sawed a foot of lumber, carved a block, or built a house save of broken sticks and mud.
With league on league of ocean strand and miles of inland seas, for four thousand years he watched their surface ripple under the wind, heard the thunder of the surf on his beach, the howl of the storm over his head, gazed on the dim blue horizon calling him to worlds that lie beyond, and yet he never dreamed a sail.” — Charles Darwin
by and by, it's only offensive if you make it offensive.
Alexia Johnson
12:47 pm on Sunday, July 8, 2012
lol female al sharpten to the rescue!
kaboom
1:07 pm on Sunday, July 8, 2012
so far so good nobody was surprised that's all no slurs made
TJK
6:08 pm on Sunday, July 8, 2012
Why not admit the truth. There are many hard working Black/African Americans,but they will not admit they are the exception. Look at crime/ prison system statistics. You and your inner circle may be honest,educated, hard working people,but lets not hide the facts.
Richard Raisin
12:12 pm on Sunday, July 8, 2012
like him up and throw the key away. He can never get another job and obviously he can never be trusted again. If he is not kept in jail the rest of his life with be filled with crime and he may even kill somebody. Who will ever hire him again? He can't be let out of jail without a sponsor who will support him if he ever could get a job he could substain himself on. Folks! Get real--he needs to be locked up indefinitely.
payton sawyer
1:58 pm on Sunday, July 8, 2012
that brother is done for . i heard he just had a newborn child and he was hiding out at his baby mothers house in woodland village apartments columbia sc off bush river road and he drives a black bmw 745
DL Handcock
12:17 pm on Sunday, July 8, 2012
What I would like to know is how is it possible that Amazon has so little security that NO ONE would notice anyone loading 726 IPADs and 49 Laptops? I mean this is not like carrying your lunch bag to your car....I would hope that their trailers are stored within a secured gated area until they are unloaded, and then Cameras?
Katherine McManus Hawkins
12:39 pm on Sunday, July 8, 2012
"Cofield did not unload the iPods or laptops from the freight trailers and submitted false documents to Amazon claiming he had unloaded them, according to the sheriff’s department."
payton sawyer
1:58 pm on Sunday, July 8, 2012
he did unload them he just didn't get caught
Marco Esquandolas
3:31 pm on Monday, July 9, 2012
He stole them from trailers parked outside the facility, not from the loading dock. You have to go through metal detectors and security to leave the building.
Bill Newton
12:23 pm on Sunday, July 8, 2012
Maybe he can get a job with Holder!
Frank Wollman
12:37 pm on Sunday, July 8, 2012
news flash,,,,,some people require adult supervision
rossio
12:57 pm on Sunday, July 8, 2012
God give us chances,y not give him a chance too.
kaboom
1:11 pm on Sunday, July 8, 2012
they gave him a chance to slow only lifted 160 ipods and some computers whatever should have taken the whole truck and been back unnoticed he failed got caught
Rob Montry
1:24 pm on Sunday, July 8, 2012
God gave him a chance. He had a job which required the loading and unloading of merchandise, expensive merchandise. God gave him a chance just by seeing if he would steal or not, and he did. He's guilty, it's not the first time he's done this or something close to it. We all have things that we do that make us all not perfect especially in the eyes of God. But I've seen this numerous times, he'll get nailed, goes to jail, find Jesus and speaks of how God has forgiven him, can the probation board do the same? NO! That's how it starts. Since God gives chances and is forgiving, maybe we should give rapists and people who rape 3 years old little girls a chance too. Mabe we should forgive them, give thm a second chance. They say anyone sin isn't gretaer than the other, so why not? What are your thoughts?
payton sawyer
2:00 pm on Sunday, July 8, 2012
it wasn't a truck it was a freight train!
Rob Montry
1:04 pm on Sunday, July 8, 2012
Apperently this guy missed the memo on honesty and all that is available to everyone in this country. Things not going good, can't make ends meet? Join the military. You get food, shelter, education and you see the world. I know, I did it for 20 years. Now I'm back in school on their dime because of my GI Bill $50,000 they gave me out right to go to school and it's only one class a month so I can work too. On top of that, I get living expenses which are about and aextra $600 something a month. Not a bad deal. This clown totally fucked up. You want it, EARN IT!. Thanks to him, we have to pay ahigher price for those items now. I'm not going to ramble forever, but the way to do it is this. Figure out a branch of service you want to go into, I recommend Navy. See the recruiter, tell him you want to be an officer. If things work out right you can go to the academy for 4 years, come out with a degree and as an ensign and go from there. You'll run a workcenter of people, but you have senior enlisted that will take care of them for you. Get your qualifcaications done, and you can go far in no time at all. If you retie from it you'll make some decent bucks, if you just do a few years and get out you can get a kick ass job. Email me, I don't charge for advice.
If you're someone whose thinking about stealing something to get ahead, think again. Your an idiot, you will get caught, and you will go no where quick. Feel free to ask me questions, I love helping out.
payton sawyer
2:03 pm on Sunday, July 8, 2012
LMAO you must be a recruiter lol
Rob Montry
1:15 pm on Sunday, July 8, 2012
He stole 726 IPODS! Give me a break. We don't need to ask God to give him a second chance, he knew it was wrong, God K=knew hew knew it was wrong. It was a test and he failed. Once a theif, always a thief is what I say, and it doesn't matter what damn color you are. I can tell who is who out there by the comments they leave as far as to forgive or not to forgive ansd so on. Forgiveness is not what he needs, he needs to work off what the worth of all that merchandise waa, which I'm sure was quite a bit. And I don't mean work in the loading and unloading, I mean scrubbing toiltes and things like that. Thins that do people a favor be preventing the spread of germs, bacteria and viruses. The bleeding heart crap has GOT TO STOP!
veggiedude
2:11 pm on Tuesday, July 10, 2012
The country came to the brink of financial ruin due to greediness and corruption and not one banker has been thrown in jail. Instead, we bailed out the banks with a trillion dollars. Where is the justice?
payton sawyer
2:16 pm on Sunday, July 8, 2012
i once knew this guy he has been doing this for a while ! he finally got caught ! i went to irmo high school with him. he was a cool guy and always had nice things and drove a bmw ....meanwhile a drove a old maxima lol ! i always thought to myself how is this dude making all this money with no job and how is he driving an expensive 2003 bmw 745 . then 2 years later after high school i wake up to see his face on the news . lol its funny how you look at someone and think that out of all people they would be the one to make it . back in high school he would sale all kinds of things . i remeber when he tried to sale me a ipod watch lol i didn't even know they had those . all i have to say is that those who hung around him will be next cause i didn't do this by himself, and one of the names of those people are Geremy Medlock lol don't drop the soap boys!
Arthur Landsford
2:20 pm on Sunday, July 8, 2012
If Barry had a son.....
john lazeno
2:26 pm on Sunday, July 8, 2012
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Aljo
2:41 pm on Sunday, July 8, 2012
Far too much Rednecks allowed!
Magnus
3:30 pm on Sunday, July 8, 2012
Its funny how the nasty and racist and uneducated comments are missing when the criminal is white
mary smith
4:04 pm on Sunday, July 8, 2012
How about 1st amendment rights. If a black person says something bad about a white person it is their 1st amendment right. If a white person says something bad about a black person it is racist.
Why is this?
veggiedude
2:13 pm on Tuesday, July 10, 2012
It depends on what and how it is said. Nothing is black and white.
Mary Ann Moseley
4:05 pm on Sunday, July 8, 2012
Where was "security" when all this happened? I can't believe that companies of this magnitude don't have a double-check system that balances inventory each day. No wonder our world is being stolen out from under us. Nobody cares. If this were my company, heads would be rolling. Whoever was responsible for this theft of huge proportions would be charged, prosecuted, be made to pay back what they stole AND serve jail time. That's absolutely absurd and distusting to think that people are that STUPID!
Jamie
5:15 pm on Sunday, July 8, 2012
ANOTHER one bites the dust...
Anna Green
5:52 pm on Sunday, July 8, 2012
Fact: 1) The kid turned himself in. 2) Kids are stupid.
Let's give this kid (and for that matter, all kids) a break......he did wrong....he knows it. Let him serve his time (pay his debt) and welcome him back. I personally don't care what color he is...a kid is a kid.
dewey higgins
6:15 pm on Sunday, July 8, 2012
thats what people do that dont want to work,that was probably the intent when he got the job.
Texas NDN
8:35 pm on Sunday, July 8, 2012
Rob Montry, about forgiving a rapist who nails a 3 yr old girl, even the Bible tells us what to do with them. Matthew 18:6
“And everyone who commits an offense against one of these little ones who believe in me, it were profitable for him that a donkey's millstone would be hung around his neck and he be sunk in the depths of the sea.”
H B
2:41 pm on Tuesday, July 10, 2012
The quote from Charles Darwin above was not by Charles Darwin at all. "These words came from the book "The Clansman: An Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan" written in 1905 by Thomas F. Dixon Jr. It was the second book in a trilogy, preceded by "The Leopard's Spots" in 1902 and followed by "The Traitor" in 1907. "The Clansman" served as inspiration for the 1915 silent movie which glamorized the Ku Klux Klan, "The Birth of a Nation", directed by David Llewelyn Wark "D. W." Griffith."
Source: http://fixedgear808.blogspot.com/2012/03/racist-quote-attributed-to-charles.html
N
7:56 am on Tuesday, July 17, 2012
Niggers!
N
7:57 am on Tuesday, July 17, 2012
Crackers!
N
7:57 am on Tuesday, July 17, 2012
Spics!
N
7:57 am on Tuesday, July 17, 2012
Chinks!
N
8:06 am on Tuesday, July 17, 2012
Injuns!