South Bay Warehouse Raid Leads To $5M In Stolen Nikes: Police

LOS ANGELES, CA — Police raided a series of warehouses from the South Bay to Hollywood, and uncovered $5 million worth of stolen Nike merchandise, according to the Los Angeles Police Department.

Police arrested a 37-year-old man seen delivering stolen Nike products, according to Detectives from the Los Angeles Police Department's Commercial Crimes Division Cargo Theft and the Organized Retail Crimes Task Force. The high-profile raid is the latest in an ongoing crackdown on organized retail and cargo theft out of Los Angeles, where mass volumes of retail goods come into the country through the Port of Los Angeles to be distributed nationwide via rail and truck.

Police allege Roy Lee Harvey Jr. received, distributed and resold the stolen goods in high volumes. After seeing Harvey Jr. deliver Nike products to a warehouse in Hawthorne, police raided the Hawthorne warehouse and another in Hollywood on Saturday, according to the LAPD.

"Detectives along with Nike’s Global Security Director and other supply chain investigators, conducted a search of the location and discovered thousands of pairs of stolen Nike shoes, clothing, accessories, and unique prototypes worth approximately $5,000,000.00," the LAPD announced.

Harvey was booked on suspicion of receiving stolen property.

Anyone with information about the case is urged to call the LAPD's Commercial Crimes Division at 213-486-5920. Anonymous tips can me made to Crime Stoppers at 800-222-8477 or at www.lacrimestoppers.org