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A warehouse operator took a $31,000 hit when three workers decided to knock off boxes of iPhones that were awaiting distribution.
Despite good security measures including CCTV and invoice checks, the offenders were able to move the stored boxes to another section of the Ipswich warehouse, then drive off with them.
One of the offenders, Russell Foe Tafilipepe, appeared from jail via video-link for sentence in the Ipswich District Court for his role in the phone heist.
The Samoan-born offender now faces deportation after another recent conviction for a weapons offence.
Tafilipepe, 34, pleaded guilty to stealing iPhones with a value of more than $5000 from DB Schenker Pty at Redbank in January 2018.
Worker faces deportation over $31,000 phone heist
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Worker faces deportation over $31,000 phone heist
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