WHITE PLAINS – Four men, including three from Yorktown Heights, have been charged with participating in a scheme to steal, transport and sell a shipment of 1,200 Apple MacBook Air laptops worth over $1 million and selling them for cash.
The units are worth about $1,000 each and the crooks were selling them for $500 to $800.
The federal allegations maintain Anton Saljanin, 43, of Yorktown Heights,
drove a truck from Yorktown Heights to a technology company in Massachusetts
to pick up a shipment of roughly $1,200 Apple computers. His brother,
Gjon Saljanin, 40, also of Yorktown Heights went with him.
The computers were being shipped to two public high schools in New Jersey.
The next day, Anton Saljanin reported to Yorktown Police that the truck had been stolen from a parking lot in Yorktown Heights and later that day he reported that he had been driving around looking for vehicle and spotted it from the highway in a parking lot in Danbury, Connecticut. His cell site data contradicted his claims about the route he took to look for the truck, authorities said. Yorktown Police found the truck, examined it and found a window had been broken, found glass at the scene in Danbury, but none in Yorktown Heights.
From January to about April 2014, the men drove the truck to the home of a long-time friend, Ujka Vulaj, 54, also of Yorktown Heights, where it is alleged the computers were off-loaded.
A fourth man, Carlos Caceres, 37, of the Bronx, and Vulaj allegedly sold the computers illegally.
