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Posted on 10/23/2026 1:20:41 PM PDT by CFW
What started with a Walmart driver’s tip about dozens of packages piling up at a Peoria home led investigators to a $1.2 million fraud scheme stretching from the Valley to Southeast Asia.
The Walmart driver told police on Aug. 22 that he’d delivered 30 to 50 packages under different names to the same home in just a couple of days. Days later, a victim reported their Walmart account had been hacked and used to buy items.
Those two reports sparked a two-month investigation that ended Thursday morning with six arrests, according to newly released court documents.
Investigators say the group placed about 15,500 orders on Walmart.com using hacked customer accounts and stolen credit and debit card numbers. They reportedly altered delivery addresses to get around fraud alerts.
“Without that delivery driver, I don’t know if it would have come across our radar,” Peoria police officer William Kennedy said.
Police linked 11,364 orders worth more than $768,000 to six drop houses in Mesa, Avondale, Glendale and Peoria, according to court paperwork. In total, investigators put the fraud at about $1.23 million.
The merchandise was reportedly funneled through two boba shops in Peoria and Tolleson, before being driven to California to be shipped to Vietnam in containers through U.S. Cargo Shipping LLC.
“Like your average shopper who gets stuff for the dogs, the kids, their house, all those types of items were coming to those houses,” Kennedy said.
So far, police say Walmart has confirmed $57,501 in chargeback losses tied to two victims, and JPMorgan Chase confirmed 203 customers with $8,821 in unauthorized purchases.
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Also today,
“Telemedicine Company Owner Sentenced to 20 Years in Prison for $46M Medicare Fraud Scheme”
“The owner of a telemedicine company was sentenced today to 20 years in prison for organizing and leading a $46.2 million Medicare fraud conspiracy that spanned more than six years. In addition to the prison term, the defendant was ordered to pay $17,942,402 in restitution to Medicare and $10,431,463 in forfeiture.
According to court documents, Christopher Harwood, 44, of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, owned and operated a telemedicine company called TelevisitMD. Harwood and his co-conspirators targeted Medicare patients through aggressive telemarketing campaigns, inducing them to accept orthotic braces and genetic tests that they did not need.”
DEPORT their @$$e$!!!!!
All Vietnamese. They’re bloody running their own department store. Penalize these corrupt individuals to the nth degree and deport their sorry butts to the North Pole without winter jackets.
About 2,000 orders sent to EACH of six houses? And no person and no anti-fraud system thought that was unusual? WTH???
But the credit card company shut my card off because my very first gasoline charge in Brazil triggered a fraud alert...after I TOLD THEM in advance I was going to be in Brazil for a couple weeks.
A two-month investigation ended with six arrests:
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<><>They reportedly altered delivery addresses to get around fraud alerts.
An alert delivery driver’s suspicions allowed police to link 11,364 orders worth more than $768,000 to six drop houses in Mesa, Avondale, Glendale and Peoria. The merchandise was reportedly funneled through “two boba shops” in Peoria and Tolleson, before being driven to California to be shipped to Vietnam in containers through U.S. Cargo Shipping LLC.
In total, investigators put the fraud at about $1.23 million.
NOTE: Boba tea comes from Taiwan and was invented in
the 1980s by a tea shop on the west coast of the island.
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