Authorities investigating theft of $400K worth of lobster

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Thieves used a fake commercial driver’s license, spoofed emails and forged papers to steal a truckload of lobster meat worth $400,000 from a Massachusetts warehouse just a few days before Christmas. The Dec. 12 heist from Lineage Logistics, a cold storage facility in Taunton, is the latest in a string of high-value cargo thefts plaguing the transport industry, according to Dylan Rexing, head of the Indiana company that was hired to transport the now-missing lobster. “This theft wasn’t random,” Rexing said. “It followed a pattern we’re seeing more and more, where criminals impersonate legitimate carriers using spoofed emails and burner…