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Sheriff: Man Steals iPods, Computers from Amazon Distribution Center

A 20-year-old man turns himself in on two counts of grand larceny for allegedly stealing 726 iPod touch players and 49 laptops.

COLUMBIA, SC — A Columbia man faces two counts of grand larceny charges for allegedly stealing 726 Apple iPod touch media players and 49 laptops worth about $160,000 from the Amazon distribution center in Cayce, according to the Lexington County Sheriff’s Department.

Todd Anthony Cofield, Jr., 20, a former employee of Amazon, turned himself in to authorities on Thursday after arrest warrants were issued on two counts of grand larceny involving items worth more than $10,000.

Arrest warrants allege that between April 20 and May 9 Cofield stole the media players from a freight trailer that he was entrusted to unload at the Amazon distribution center.

Police say Cofield also stole 49 Hewlett Packard mini laptop computers from a freight trailer on May 31.

Cofield did not unload the iPods or laptops from the freight trailers and submitted false documents to Amazon claiming he had unloaded them, according to the sheriff’s department.

FedEx Freight and security guards at the distribution center reported the stolen items to the sheriff’s department. 

Cofield was released from the Lexington County Detention Center on Friday after posting bail totaling $50,000.

Rob Montry July 8, 2012 at 05:15 pm
He stole 726 IPODS! Give me a break. We don't need to ask God to give him a second chance, he knew it was wrong, God K=knew hew knew it was wrong. It was a test and he failed. Once a theif, always a thief is what I say, and it doesn't matter what damn color you are. I can tell who is who out there by the comments they leave as far as to forgive or not to forgive ansd so on. Forgiveness is not what he needs, he needs to work off what the worth of all that merchandise waa, which I'm sure was quite a bit. And I don't mean work in the loading and unloading, I mean scrubbing toiltes and things like that. Thins that do people a favor be preventing the spread of germs, bacteria and viruses. The bleeding heart crap has GOT TO STOP!
Rob Montry July 8, 2012 at 05:24 pm
God gave him a chance. He had a job which required the loading and unloading of merchandise, expensive merchandise. God gave him a chance just by seeing if he would steal or not, and he did. He's guilty, it's not the first time he's done this or something close to it. We all have things that we do that make us all not perfect especially in the eyes of God. But I've seen this numerous times, he'll get nailed, goes to jail, find Jesus and speaks of how God has forgiven him, can the probation board do the same? NO! That's how it starts. Since God gives chances and is forgiving, maybe we should give rapists and people who rape 3 years old little girls a chance too. Mabe we should forgive them, give thm a second chance. They say anyone sin isn't gretaer than the other, so why not? What are your thoughts?
payton sawyer July 8, 2012 at 05:58 pm
that brother is done for . i heard he just had a newborn child and he was hiding out at his baby mothers house in woodland village apartments columbia sc off bush river road and he drives a black bmw 745
payton sawyer July 8, 2012 at 05:58 pm
he did unload them he just didn't get caught
payton sawyer July 8, 2012 at 06:00 pm
it wasn't a truck it was a freight train!
payton sawyer July 8, 2012 at 06:03 pm
LMAO you must be a recruiter lol
payton sawyer July 8, 2012 at 06:16 pm
i once knew this guy he has been doing this for a while ! he finally got caught ! i went to irmo high school with him. he was a cool guy and always had nice things and drove a bmw ....meanwhile a drove a old maxima lol ! i always thought to myself how is this dude making all this money with no job and how is he driving an expensive 2003 bmw 745 . then 2 years later after high school i wake up to see his face on the news . lol its funny how you look at someone and think that out of all people they would be the one to make it . back in high school he would sale all kinds of things . i remeber when he tried to sale me a ipod watch lol i didn't even know they had those . all i have to say is that those who hung around him will be next cause i didn't do this by himself, and one of the names of those people are Geremy Medlock lol don't drop the soap boys!
Arthur Landsford July 8, 2012 at 06:20 pm
If Barry had a son.....
john lazeno July 8, 2012 at 06:26 pm
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Cement Mixer July 8, 2012 at 06:31 pm
Kind of like the priests right?
Aljo July 8, 2012 at 06:37 pm
Pondo????
Aljo July 8, 2012 at 06:41 pm
Far too much Rednecks allowed!
lesa tatum July 8, 2012 at 07:26 pm
I'm not it is usually a kid that does this kind of thing. At work they caught a lot of college kids who were doing the same thing. I live near an ivy league school.
Magnus July 8, 2012 at 07:30 pm
Its funny how the nasty and racist and uneducated comments are missing when the criminal is white
mary smith July 8, 2012 at 08:04 pm
How about 1st amendment rights. If a black person says something bad about a white person it is their 1st amendment right. If a white person says something bad about a black person it is racist.
Why is this?
Mary Ann Moseley July 8, 2012 at 08:05 pm
Where was "security" when all this happened? I can't believe that companies of this magnitude don't have a double-check system that balances inventory each day. No wonder our world is being stolen out from under us. Nobody cares. If this were my company, heads would be rolling. Whoever was responsible for this theft of huge proportions would be charged, prosecuted, be made to pay back what they stole AND serve jail time. That's absolutely absurd and distusting to think that people are that STUPID!
Jamie July 8, 2012 at 09:15 pm
ANOTHER one bites the dust...
Anna Green July 8, 2012 at 09:52 pm
Fact: 1) The kid turned himself in. 2) Kids are stupid.
Let's give this kid (and for that matter, all kids) a break......he did wrong....he knows it. Let him serve his time (pay his debt) and welcome him back. I personally don't care what color he is...a kid is a kid.
TJK July 8, 2012 at 10:08 pm
Why not admit the truth. There are many hard working Black/African Americans,but they will not admit they are the exception. Look at crime/ prison system statistics. You and your inner circle may be honest,educated, hard working people,but lets not hide the facts.
dewey higgins July 8, 2012 at 10:15 pm
thats what people do that dont want to work,that was probably the intent when he got the job.
Texas NDN July 9, 2012 at 12:35 am
Rob Montry, about forgiving a rapist who nails a 3 yr old girl, even the Bible tells us what to do with them. Matthew 18:6
“And everyone who commits an offense against one of these little ones who believe in me, it were profitable for him that a donkey's millstone would be hung around his neck and he be sunk in the depths of the sea.”
Marco Esquandolas July 9, 2012 at 07:31 pm
He stole them from trailers parked outside the facility, not from the loading dock. You have to go through metal detectors and security to leave the building.
veggiedude July 10, 2012 at 06:11 pm
The country came to the brink of financial ruin due to greediness and corruption and not one banker has been thrown in jail. Instead, we bailed out the banks with a trillion dollars. Where is the justice?
veggiedude July 10, 2012 at 06:13 pm
It depends on what and how it is said. Nothing is black and white.
H B July 10, 2012 at 06:41 pm
The quote from Charles Darwin above was not by Charles Darwin at all. "These words came from the book "The Clansman: An Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan" written in 1905 by Thomas F. Dixon Jr. It was the second book in a trilogy, preceded by "The Leopard's Spots" in 1902 and followed by "The Traitor" in 1907. "The Clansman" served as inspiration for the 1915 silent movie which glamorized the Ku Klux Klan, "The Birth of a Nation", directed by David Llewelyn Wark "D. W." Griffith."
Source: http://fixedgear808.blogspot.com/2012/03/racist-quote-attributed-to-charles.html
N July 17, 2012 at 11:56 am
Niggers!
N July 17, 2012 at 11:57 am
Crackers!
N July 17, 2012 at 11:57 am
Spics!
N July 17, 2012 at 11:57 am
Chinks!
N July 17, 2012 at 12:06 pm
Injuns!

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