One single tip led to the recovery of $50 million in stolen goods. Five million dollars worth of merchandise was recovered on Thursday alone.

It was the result of a year long investigation by the California Highway Patrol that ended with more than 40 people in custody, all believed to be part of an organized retail theft ring.

We are talking about entire truckloads full of your purchases. So if your Amazon order never arrived, or maybe you blamed the Post Office, it may have actually been a sophisticated criminal operation.

It was given the code name, Operation Overloaded.

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