Drain Christie (Kristy Stock)

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2022: For theft of 3000 iPod players schools have 1.5 years of prison

On January 13, 2022, an employee of one of the schools, which launched a program in which iPod were used to teach reading and mathematics to low-income Native American schoolchildren, was given 1.5 years in prison for stealing and reselling 3,000 devices.

Kristy Stock, 46, from New Mexico, receives 18 months in prison for stealing 3,000 iPod, which she resold for personal gain in the amount of more than $800 thousand between 2013 and 2018.

The American was given 1.5 years in prison for stealing 3 thousand iPod from schools

It is not known whether Stoke took the iPod's from Native American schoolchildren who needed them, or simply those that remained unused. The court document says that the iPod were bought in bulk with federal grant funds, and the school district kept unused.

According to the US Attorney's Office for the District of Maryland, Stock participated in a scheme centered around 36-year-old Colorado resident Saurab Chawla, who bought stolen electronics and other goods and resold them to eBay and Amazon.

Chavla worked with a Delaware FedEx distribution center manager named Joseph Kukta to steal parcels before they reach customers. According to court documents, Chawla paid him about $1.5 million. Thefts included deliveries of Nike sneakers and devices from Apple, Epson, Kenwood and Magellan, as well as other goods.

Kukta came to an object of FedEx on Sundays, holidays or in other time when employees were not on an object, and took out packages which it identified earlier from trailers of FedEx. He tried to avoid detection by turning off the light at the site and blocking some surveillance cameras with cardboard boxes and other objects. Kukta loaded the stolen parcels into his truck or into contractors' cars FedEx and parked them at the site, and then took the cars to a rented warehouse in Seaford, where he unloaded and stored the items.

Chawla was sentenced to 66 months in prison; Kukta received 42 months; James Bender of Maryland, who allowed Chawla to use his eBay and PayPal accounts to sell stolen goods, was sentenced to a year and one day.^[1]

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