WHITE PLAINS – A Yorktown Heights man was sentenced to four years in federal prison for participating in a scheme to steal, transport and sell a shipment of 1,200 computers valued at over $1 million that were bo0und for two public high schools in New Jersey.
Anton Saljanin, 46, pled guilty last October to one count of conspiracy to commit theft from an interstate shipment; interstate transportation of stolen property; receipt, possession and sale of stolen property; and one count of theft from an interstate shipment.
According to the indictment, Saljanin, a driver for a shipping company, drove from Yorktown Heights to a technology company in Massachusetts on January 15, 2014 to pick up a shipment of computers. He brought his brother, Gjon Saljanin with him The next morning Saljanin reported to Yorktown Police that the truck had been stolen from a parking lot in Yorktown Heights and later in the day, he reported to police he had been driving around looking for the vehicle when he spotted it in a Danbury, Connecticut parking lot.
Investigators determined the brothers had driven to the home of Ujka Vulaj, a friend of Anton Saljanin, unloaded the truck, and returned to the Yorktown Heights parking lot.
From January through April 2014, Vulaj sold the stolen computers, some with the help of a co-worker, Carlos Caceres, charging $500 to $800 in cash for each device.
Vulaj, 56, of Yorktown Heights, pled guilty in 2016 to related charges and was sentenced to 12 months and one day in prison and two years of supervised release.
Caceres, 43, of the Bronx, pled guilty and was sentenced to 27 months in prison and three years of supervised release.
Gjon Saljanin, 43, of Yorktown Heights, pled guilty and was sentenced to 12 months and one day in prison and two years of supervised release.
