EXCLUSIVE: A seafood swindler who once posed as a phony cruise line executive to pull off a six-figure shrimp scam is once again in hot water over a shellfish caper in which he allegedly made off with “hundreds of thousands of dollars’ worth” of crab.
in which he allegedly made off with “hundreds of thousands of dollars’ worth” of king and snow crab.
The order was sent via business management software, and since everything appeared legit, Gorelik authorized the crab to be released from a cold storage facility he contracted with in Stanwood, Washington.On Jan. 18, trucker Juan Sanchez picked up the order—300 cases of 6/9 count red king crab and 300 cases of 4/7 count king crab—in a 26-foot refrigerated box truck from cold storage.
At a crossroads, Gorelik called the director of seafood at Albertsons, Safeway’s parent company, who informed him that Delgado, Zavala, and Wood didn’t exist. The purchase orders were fake, and Gorelik’s company was not set up as a vendor for either Safeway or Albertsons. This time, Gorelik “worked with North Star Cold Storage to put product of lesser value in boxes labeled as the product ordered,” the complaint states. And thus, the trap was set.
The surveillance team followed the truck south for about an hour, the “4” falling off the trailer’s license plate along the way. The Snohomish deputy contacted the Washington State Patrol to pull over the truck, which bore an invalid DOT registration number, for a commercial vehicle inspection.
A.C. told officers that he “was out of money, and badly needed work,” according to the complaint. Sanchez had arranged the job, and the two were delivering the truckload of crab to Portland, Oregon, he said.
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