4 men accused of stealing nearly 1,200 student laptops
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. -- A pair of brothers and two other men have been accused of stealing nearly 1,200 laptops bound for public school students in New Jersey.
Prosecutors say 43-year-old Anton Saljanin, 40-year-old Gjon Saljanin and the two other suspects are to appear in court Thursday. They're charged with conspiracy, theft from an interstate shipment and related offenses.
Investigators say that in January 2014 the brothers drove a truck from suburban New York City to Massachusetts to pick up a shipment of Apple laptops worth more than $1 million and that were meant for two public high schools in New Jersey.
The next day, Anton Saljanin told police the truck had been stolen, and that he'd spotted it in a Danbury, Connecticut parking lot, with a window smashed and the computers missing, investigators said.
Prosecutors say that account didn't add up and they discovered that two other men sold dozens of the laptops.
The brothers' lawyers tell The New York Times they expect them to plead not guilty.