Police believe the suspect is a manager at the warehouse where the tests were being stored.
SANTA ANA, Calif. – Police in California are searching for the person who stole $1 million worth of COVID-19 tests.Detectives in Santa Ana say 33-year-old Carlitos Peralta diverted shipments of valuable COVID tests to his home at the peak of the omicron surge.
“It is our understanding it’s about at least a million dollars worth of COVID tests,” Santa Ana Police Sgt. Maria Lopez said.“Beginning Dec. 30 up until Feb. 7, he was essentially going into some of their databases at work and routing some of the COVID tests to his home,” Lopez said.The nationally known company ships COVID-19 tests to popup testing sites, clinics and schools.
According to detectives, 100 separate shipments of the highly sought after tests arrived at Peralta’s Santa Ana house from multiple COVID clinic warehouses. “And if we kind of backtrack Dec. 30 through Feb. 7, that was kind of the time where people were looking for tests, so it seems like it was at a time where it was in high demand, absolutely,” Lopez said.Police are hoping someone can tip them off to the whereabouts of Peralta and the tests.
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