00:00We credit that person for taking that time to say, hey, you know, something's not right here.
00:06New at 6, detectives say a Walmart delivery driver tipped off police to a million-dollar fraud operation.
00:14Detectives say it involved stolen credit card information from Walmart customers and a scheme to ship merchandise overseas.
00:21Michaela Marshall is here in the studio tonight. A total of, what, six people facing felony charges from this.
00:26This is a pretty large operation, and these are some photos that police shared with us that give us a
00:32glimpse at some of the merchandise we're talking about.
00:34$25,000 worth of Walmart goods that were recovered.
00:38Police also seized $35,000 in cash and $45,000 in gold bars.
00:45The hero of this story is a Walmart delivery driver.
00:49Without that delivery driver, I don't know if it would have come across our radar.
00:53Police got a call from that driver to report a suspicious amount of deliveries to this Peoria home.
00:59Court records say in just a few days, between 30 and 50 packages were dropped off here, addressed to multiple
01:07names.
01:07I believe the names were changed, so it would be like they took William Kennedy's Walmart account and then they
01:13shipped it to themselves.
01:14Peoria police officer William Kennedy says the six people on your screen were arrested Thursday following a two-month investigation.
01:22All are facing the same five felony charges for taking part in a $1.4 million fraud operation.
01:30I feel there are some types of mistakes here because I did not take part in committing any crimes or
01:37felony.
01:38My question is, I also would like to know why I was convicted for such accounts.
01:45Through a translator, two of the suspects told the judge they were innocent during their first court appearances.
01:50Based on the documents that I was given, I have simply found probable cause to proceed with this case.
01:58Those documents show detectives uncovered a crime network where this group of family and friends use stolen credit card information
02:05from customer accounts on Walmart.com
02:08to place thousands of orders and send the merchandise to houses across the valley.
02:13Like your average shopper who gets stuff for the dogs, the kids, the, you know, their house, all those types
02:20of items were coming to those houses.
02:22From there, the goods ended up at this Mesa home where Hoy Nguyen ran U.S. Cargo Shipping, LLC.
02:29Police say Nguyen would pack up his van in a small U-Haul and drive to California every Friday.
02:35According to investigators, the stolen items were then shipped to Vietnam in cargo containers.
02:41Maybe to resell those items in Vietnam is probably my guess at that point.
02:47And this criminal activity went on for at least a year.
02:50While police were executing search warrants yesterday, more packages were showing up at the houses.
02:56All six suspects are behind bars tonight, held on a $500,000 cash-only bond.
03:02Live in studio, Mikayla Marshall for Arizona's Family.
03:05Mikayla, thank you.
