Elaborate stolen Ford auto parts scheme, charges presented by prosecutor

And that's to the Dearborn Police Department, and that triggers the Dearborn Police Department investigation. We have two members of the Dearborn Police Department standing. They should be standing up here with us. Yes, why don't you come on up, please, and give your name. Commander Tim McHale, M-C-H-A-L-E. Lieutenant James Isaacs, I-S-A-A-C-S. I cannot stress enough the amount of work the Dearborn Police Department and our office put into this, and you'll see more why in a few minutes. On March the 15th, Mr. Farage steals $20,000 plus More parts from the Ford Motor Company and delivers them to StarTech. On the 19th of 2025, Ford Motor Company reports him, oh, I said that already, and that's the Dearborn Police. March the 22nd of 2025, he steals parts, more parts, from Ford Motor Company, the Rouge plant, and delivers to StarTech Auto. And on the 8th of April 2025, the Dearborn Police execute a controlled buy from StarTech Auto. On April 12th, he steals more items. On April 19th, Lisanne Farras steals another $20,000 worth of parts. On May 1st and May 5th, the Dearborn Police execute control buys from StarTech Auto. On May 5th, they execute search warrants on all StarTech Auto businesses, and that's all the businesses I mentioned earlier. at Wasan Faraj's home and the Khalil family home. On June the 25th, and I'm almost done with this timeline, the Dearborn Police submit a warrant request to the Wayne County Prosecutor's Office and from June the 25th, June 2025 to the present day, November the 10th of 2026, the police investigation takes place and our review of the investigation and evidence including Further investigation that was needed, and that was completed in 2026 in September, forensic examination of thousands of hours of security footage from multiple business locations, forensic examination of multiple terabytes of phone and computer data, thousands of text messages, emails, photos, and videos, various online accounts were examined, cell tower records were examined, Inventory and review of thousands of stolen parts, and we'll show you some pictures of those, financial records, and witness interviews. And we charged this case today. So we have kind of simplified the scheme for you, and this is how it worked. Defendant Aiman Khalil places an order for parts with Defendant Wassam Faraj for him to steal from Ford Motor Company. Defendant Faraj steals the parts from Ford Motor Company. Defendant Faraj then delivers the stolen Ford parts to StarTech Auto Parts and then the defendants Aiman Khalil, Faraz Cahill, and Badr Cahill sell the stolen Ford parts at StarTech Auto. The locations are listed here. You'll see that in the PowerPoint that we give you. Ford Motor Company Rouge Plant of course, StarTech Auto Parts of course, StarTech Auto Service Incorporated on West Chicago in Detroit, Wassam Faraj's home in Canton, and the Khalil family home in Dearborn. Gate 9 at the Rouge Plant is where most of this took place and how Mr. Faraj entered Ford Motor Company. It's a truck-only exit. It's approximately a one-minute drive from the Modification Center, which I'll explain in just a minute. This is him entering Gate 9 on various days. On the 8th of March, he entered in a vehicle registered to StarTech. On March the 15th, he drove his personal vehicle. On March the 22nd, another vehicle registered at StarTech, and on April the 12th of 2025, his own personal vehicle. The Mod Center is a modification center. We'll stop the video for a second. It can be driven into the gate automatically, it lifts up, the approach without a badge reader so anyone can just drive in. It contains the graphics room, which is behind that. The graphics room is where the Ford Motor Company, one of the places where the Ford Motor Company details and puts graphics on cars. There is no camera in that area. So here's a video showing some of the alleged evidence that we'll be presenting. That is him driving in. This is not the inside of the graphics room, but this is in the inside of the modification center He's walking around looking for, we are alleging, the parts that were ordered to be stolen. He uses the forklift to go ahead and assist him in stealing these parts, going into the graphics room, where, again, there are no cameras coming out. Next slide. Next slide. He is now delivering some of those stolen parts to StarTech. Those are the dunnage that has no business in StarTech. We also had thousands of text messages as you can probably imagine we had to go through. I'm just going to read this one to you and again this is what we are alleging. The text message goes from Wassam Faraj to Ayman Kahil. Their pictures are shown here. He is ordering 24 sets of XLT headlights, 16 sets of black headlights, 16 sets of chrome headlights, Eight sets of Chinese headlights for a total of 128 headlights. The average price, we are told, by Ford is $175, and it comes to $22,400. This is just but one of many text messages. Again, we have put in the PowerPoint for you that we will again give to you electronically. We have transcribed it for you, but we are going to play that. I'm not going to read that, but we are going to play that for you. This is where one is accepting money from the other. He's paying him for the stolen stolen parts. He has Ayman in the black and Wassam Faraj in the gray. Planning the next theft. Out of the way. Out of the way. So these are just some photographs that we are alleging that we're going to be presenting in court. These are the Dunnage boxes, and these are auto parts in these boxes. These are the trailers where they were storing all these stolen parts. More of the same. These were their businesses. 89-24 was one of the StarTech businesses, Greenfield in Detroit. So again, this was a very exhaustive investigation. I want to again thank the Dearborn Police and members of my staff that worked on this case for well over a year. And looked through all of this evidence to get to the conclusion where we are now. Today, obviously, is November the 10th. The arraignment will be today at 1.30 p.m. in the Dearborn District Court, 19th District. And the judge, we are told, is Sam Salome. I'll take a few questions now if you have any. Forgive me, as you stated, how were they found out? Was it security noticing something? Was it other employees noticing something? It was employees noticing something that was not where it was supposed to be, the dunnage. And then they reported it to their superiors. They were driving deliberately in an area where they're... They knew, what's his familiarity with the Ford Rouge plant, because he worked there, he's familiar with that location. He knew that there were no cameras in the graphics area. We are alleging that he knew there were no cameras in the graphics area. But, of course, there were cameras that we were able to capture in other places. Do you know how long they worked with the company? I don't know how long he worked there, but that's a question for Ford Motor Company that you maybe will find out from them. And about how much in parts was stolen? Again, that will come out in court. A very large amount of money. Were any of those parts, I don't know if this was part of the effort, like recovered and then those people giving the money back as far as whoever bought them? Whoever bought them giving the money back? We didn't delve into that area, I don't think, trying to recover the money that they sold on eBay. And they think they sold some on Facebook and they sold some in their storefront. What's your message to people or businesses who knowingly buy stolen parts? Or if it looks suspicious and you see a deal on eBay, what's your message to them? Well you always, if it looks too good to be true, it probably isn't true. Certainly they were at a very lessened rate than these items were actually sold for. And certainly this is what happens to you if you engage in this kind of behavior. We will investigate. Charge you if you can show it beyond a reasonable doubt in court, and you will be facing multiple years in prison. Did Farage or the family members, the Khalils, did they have any prior history as related to theft or anything to this nature? We are not really, we're ethically bound not to talk about people's criminal histories when we are making charges and when we're speaking publicly. We don't want to prejudice any jury, because that's not information that they would have. All right, any more questions? Thank you so much for coming, and we will provide this PowerPoint to you electronically. Okay, thank you.