A Maryland man has been sentenced in federal court in Boston for stealing thousands of items from a high-end outlet store in Wrentham, Mass.
Nathaniel Owens, 33, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Indira Talwani to 30 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release. Owens also was ordered to pay $32,000 in restitution to the Gucci store in Wrentham, Mass. In April 2024, Owens pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to transport stolen goods in interstate commerce and one count of interstate transportation of stolen goods.
On the evening of September 16, 2021, Owens and his co-defendant Linworth Hayes Crawford III and allegedly others travelled from Washington D.C. to the Wrentham Village Premium Outlets in Massachusetts. In the early morning hours of September 17, 2021, Owens, Crawford and allegedly others entered the Gucci store by smashing the store’s glass front door and stole $32,000 in high-end merchandise, including handbags, duffle bags, backpacks and sunglasses.
Owens was captured on mall security videos while visiting the Nike Store. After the robbery, the car used by the defendants crossed the George Washington Bridge going south. During a stop on their way to Washington, D.C., a store video surveillance camera filmed one of the men allegedly taking a Gucci bag out of the car to examine it.
The day after the theft, another co-defendant allegedly posted on his Instagram account that he had Gucci bags available for sale. Images of the bags appeared to be identical to the Gucci bags stolen during the burglary earlier that day.
At his sentencing, the government alleged and Owens did not contest that he had participated in approximately 10 other similar burglaries throughout the East Coast of the United States and that the total value of merchandise stolen was in hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Crawford pleaded guilty to his role in the conspiracy in February 2024 and was sentenced on August 20, 2024 to eight months in prison. The government alleged at sentencing that Crawford had participated in one other similar burglary.
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