Industry Sheriff's Task Force Recovers $30,000 in Stolen Plastic

The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department's Plastic Industrial Task Force has busted another illegal warehouse operation stowing and grinding stolen trademarked plastic products.

The City of Industry Sheriff's Station-based task force recently recovered stolen products  with an estimated value of $30,000, according to a news release. The team also seized $60,000 in miscellaneous equipment used in the illegal operation.

The sheriff's department did not release information about the location of the illegal operation, date of the bust, or the suspects. No suspects were arrested, sheriff's investigators said.

Most of the stolen plastic products were found intact, but some had been ground in an effort to make them untraceable, authorities said.

The bust followed a length investigation and investigators served a search warrant at the location.
 
The investigation continues.

The City of Industry funds the Plastic Industrial Task Force, which has been in operation since September 2011.

Since the team was formed, task force members have recovered and returne more than $7 million in stolen trademarked plastic products to businesses and  arrested 71 suspects involved in the illegal operations, authorities said. The task force has shuttered 29 locations used to stow, grind, and prime for sale intact and ground stolen plastic.

For more information, call Sgt. Nabeel Mitry at 626-773-2060, Industry Sheriff's Station.