**Charges Filed Against Three Men in Notorious Apple Product Theft**
Federal authorities have charged three men after a daring theft of a delivery truck carrying over $1 million in Apple products earlier this year. The event took place on January 3, 2026, near the Apple Store at the Americana Manhasset mall in New York.
As per a press announcement from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York, the defendants—Alan Christhofer Cedeno-Ferrer, Michael Mejia-Nunez, and Ennait Alexis Sirett-Padilla—confronted two delivery employees brandishing firearms. They compelled one employee into the rear of the truck and bound his hands with zip ties, while instructing the other to steer the vehicle to a remote location.
The assailants directed the driver to a parking lot behind an office building on Northern Boulevard in Manhasset, where they offloaded the prized Apple products—including MacBooks, iPhones, iPads, and Apple Watches—from the delivery truck into a hired Home Depot box truck. The vehicle had been rented by Cedeno-Ferrer using a counterfeit Pennsylvania driver’s license.
After completing the transfer, the robbers secured the victims inside the delivery truck and escaped the site. Luckily, one of the victims was able to liberate himself and reach out to law enforcement, which sparked an inquiry into the offense.
The stolen Apple items were taken to a self-storage facility in Paterson, New Jersey, where Sirett-Padilla had acquired a unit under his name. This location was utilized to facilitate the movement of the stolen items to a U-Haul truck and another vehicle managed by an accomplice. The Home Depot truck was eventually abandoned in the Bronx and found by police two days post-heist.
Prosecutors revealed that Cedeno-Ferrer’s fingerprints were located on a rental contract inside the Home Depot truck, and he purportedly activated two stolen Apple Watches shortly after the burglary. If found guilty, the three men could each face a maximum sentence of 30 years in prison for their involvement in this armed robbery.
This case underlines the persistent difficulties in securing high-value goods while in transit and the extremes to which offenders will go to take advantage of weaknesses in the supply chain.