Police raid disrupts Houston plastic pallet theft network

Staff -- Modern Materials Handling, 5/1/2009

All-plastic pallets with embedded RFID tags played a major role in disrupting an illegal pallet operation in Houston, Texas. Intelligent Global Pooling Systems (iGPS, www.igps.net), reported that with its close and ongoing collaboration with Houston law enforcement officials and retailers in the region, the Houston Police Department's Major Offenders Task Force conducted a raid on PA Pallets of Houston on March 26, 2009. During the raid, the owner of PA Pallets was arrested for grand theft and receiving selling and possession of stolen property.

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