It turns out one of the crooks involved in last Thursday’s iPad mini theft at JFK Airport was less of a “Goodfella” and more of a “dumbfella.” The FBI has arrested airport worker Renel Rene Richardson, for allegedly assisting two accomplices in the theft of $1.9 million of iPad minis from a JFK cargo area.
…two unidentified individuals used the airport’s own forklift to load the iPads onto their truck just before midnight Monday. The thieves operated in the same cargo area where director Martin Scorsese filmed a Lufthansa flight heist in the 1978 mob flick “GoodFellas”.
The Bureau was able to apprehend airport worker Renel Rene Richardson on the grounds that he made suspicious inquiries to co-workers about the gadget shipment and where forklifts might be found. What a “Dumbfella”…
Richardson acted as a lookout, while the other two unidentified individuals loaded two pallets full of the Apple devices onto a truck and drove away after another employee confronted them.
After bring arrested by the FBI, Richardson accompanied the Port Authority detectives Port Authority detectives as they searched for the truck in Long Island.
No word on if the devices have been recovered.
Sounds like if they ever make a movie about this heist, it’ll be starring Will Ferrell instead of Robert De Niro.
