Dearborn father and sons busted in grand theft scheme

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All right. Thanks so much, Jamie.
Four men arraigned today in what's being called an
elaborate scheme that involves stealing
and selling auto parts from four motor companies'
Rouge plant. Fox News' Jamie Sherrod is live
at the Dearborn police station with more
on what happened there. Jamie.
Yeah, Roof, we're talking millions of dollars in parts stolen
and sold since March of last year. The men allegedly involved include
a Ford employee and a father and his two sons.
Wassam Faraj would allegedly steal those parts from the Ford Rouge plant
where he worked, and then he would deliver them to Star Tech Auto.
That is where Ayman Faraj and Badar Khalil worked.
They would then allegedly sell those parts on eBay.
Surveillance videos showing those parts.
Parts being taken from the Ford plant and unloaded at Star Tech Auto.
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.
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 we can show it beyond a reasonable doubt in court,
and you will be facing multiple years in prison.
Four men face six charges each,
including conducting a criminal enterprise,
as well as multiple counts of concealing and receiving stolen property.
They are due back in court next month.
Roof, back to you.
Yeah, I mean, Jamie, you talk about auto parts
from such a large company.
I mean, Ford Motor Company's Rouge plant.
You think how tough that would be to do,
but obviously they found a creative way to do it.
They still found a creative way to do it going
to the plant on weekends where it's not as busy
going into I believe it was called
the graphics room where there's video of you entering that
room but there's not really video inside
but clearly here as you just saw from some of the
video although there were no cameras directly inside
of that room they were able to get other
video surrounding the area and pretty much putting two
and two together you know you see the video
From the plant, that delivery at StarTech Auto,
and this was a thorough investigation, Rube.
They told us it involved thousands
of text messages they sifted through,
as well as the surveillance videos that we showed you
as well that led them to this conclusion here.
Yeah, a lot of hard-working police work done there
to make sure that the result was found here.
Our Jamie Sherrod, Fox live tonight.
Jamie, thank you.
