Greenfield police recover stolen cargo worth nearly $3 million inside semi

Greenfield Police Recover Nearly $3M Worth of Cargo and Arrest Man

GREENFIELD, Ind. — Greenfield Police recovered nearly $3 million worth of stolen cargo and arrested a man over the weekend. Officers stopped a semi truck near the Greenfield exit Saturday morning after learning it was involved in a cargo theft in Pennsylvania last Thursday. The semi driver, 31-year-old Deepak Kumar from California, is accused of using fake documents to obtain nearly 40,000 pounds of Tungsten Oxide Powder. That material is used i…

Greenfield police recover stolen cargo worth nearly $3 million inside semi

GREENFIELD, Ind. -- Greenfield police have arrested a man accused of fraudulently obtaining nearly 40,000 pounds of stolen cargo from Pennsylvania, recovering $3 million in the process. Around 6 a.m. on Saturday, officers with the Greenfield Police Department were made aware of a semi-trailer that was observed traveling through the westbound lanes of Interstate 70 [...]

Driver arrested in Hancock County after police find $3 million worth of chemical compound bound for Japan

GREENFIELD, Ind. (WISH) — A man driving a truck through Hancock County on Saturday morning has been arrested after police found almost $3 million worth of tungsten oxide powder that was being shipped to Japan. According to a release from Greenfield police, officers were alerted at 6 a.m. that a wanted semi-truck involved in a theft of cargo in Pennsylvania on Thursday was traveling along I-70 westbound, entering Hancock County. The driver, 31-ye…

Truck driver accused of using fake documents to steal $2.8 million in industrial product bound for Japan, Indiana police say

A truck driver was arrested in Indiana in connection with the theft of a shipment of millions of dollars worth of Tungsten Oxide powder. At 6 a.m. on June 27, the Greenfield Police Department (GPD) received an alert about a semi truck traveling west on I-70 entering Hancock County, Indiana, that was believed to have been involved in a cargo theft incident in Pennsylvanian on June 25. GPD located the suspect truck and performed a traffic stop on …