The Department of Transportation’s Office of Inspector General recently announced court activity in four trucking-related crime investigations. Here’s a summary of what happened with each:
HHG moving company owner sentenced
Shedrick Giles, owner of Fast Movers Delivery Service, was sentenced March 2 to a year and two days imprisonment, 40 hours of community service and ordered to pay $144,007 in restitution to his victims in a household goods theft scheme involving multiple companies.
Giles’ company was using addresses in both Georgia and New York, and he was identified as a co-conspirator with Tasheen “Ty” R. Pickett, owner of J&P Moving, based in Sumter, S.C. According to the OIG, J&P never received authority from the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration to transport HHG.
After acquiring jobs, J&P and others dispatched trucks and movers to various locations, loaded the household goods into the trucks and then never returned the goods to the owners. When an owner would contact the movers for their goods, the companies would give excuses for the delivery failures or promise delivery at a later date, but the goods would never be delivered.
Giles and Pickett used the same scheme to fraudulently obtain money and household goods from victims. In January, Pickett was sentenced to four years in prison and ordered to pay $427,000 in restitution.
Former international fugitive sentenced in Texas for evading motor fuel taxes
