Pembroke Pines FedEx driver charged in alleged $30K Apple product theft, cops say
A Pembroke Pines man and former FedEx driver has been arrested for allegedly stealing over $30,000 worth of Apple products, according to Miami-Dade court records.
Medley Police Department investigators say the shipping carrier reported and accused freight driver Michael Turro-Cabrera, 43, of theft and fired him on Dec. 18, three weeks after FedEx says he failed to deliver a Black Friday shipment, his arrest report says.
Turro-Cabrera had full “care, control and custody” of two Apple products deliveries — valued at $22,507 and $8,658 — scheduled for drop-off at Apple retail stores on Nov. 28 and Nov. 29.
When neither arrived, police say the technology giant flagged the shortage, leading FedEx to review the driver’s GPS and punch clock data and find “manipulation ... consistent with an intentional effort to create an opportunity to execute the theft.”
Surveillance footage confirmed Turro-Cabrera parked the freight in the back alley of Pinecrest Physical Therapy, located at 8935 S. Dixie Highway, around noon on Nov. 28, investigators said.
Moments later, police say an unauthorized gray Dodge pickup truck driven by Yasmany Aguiar Gonzalez — a former FedEx freight driver who’d been fired after eight years with the shipping carrier — arrived and backed into the FedEx trailer for a “back-to-back cargo transfer.”
Subpoenaed phone records also confirmed that Turro-Cabrera called his former coworker after pulling into the drop-off location.
Investigators said that while surveillance cameras were unable to capture the stolen products being swapped, video footage “strongly suggests that the items were being offloaded” from the freight into the truck.
Caught on camera were Aguiar Gonzalez’s bed cover being removed and reattached followed by Turro-Cabrera reentering the FedEx trailer with a roll of shrink wrap used to rewrap pallets.
Police say Turro-Cabrera never reported the loss of the Apple products and are charging the driver with two felonies, grand theft of cargo under $50,000 and organized fraud of $20,000 to $50,000.
According to Turro-Cabrera’s arrest report, he responded to the Medley Police station on Tuesday, June 23, and was arrested and booked into the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center.
Court records show Turro-Cabrera is no longer being held in jail and that he filed a written plea of not guilty.
Aguiar Gonzalez is still at large as of June 25, records show.
