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NEWS: NY TEEN SENTENCED TO NINE YEARS IN PRISON FOR STEALING SNEAKERS

NY TEEN SENTENCED TO NINE YEARS IN PRISON FOR STEALING SNEAKERS

A teenager from Albany, New York has been sentenced to nine years in prison after he robbed another teen's sneakers; a story that has become all too familiar. 17 year-old Marquis Dixon was charged with first-degree robbery for the theft which took place last March- He was facing up to 25 years.

As the story goes;

In March, Marquis Dixon, 17, of Albany arranged through a posting on the social media site to buy the sneakers. When Dixon met the other 17-year-old, who lived in Coeymans, at a McDonald's parking lot on South Pearl Street at 9:30 p.m., he displayed what looked like a handgun and fled with the sneakers, District Attorney David Soares' office said. The other teen was unharmed.

Nine years for a pair of kicks! He should've spent more time worrying about what his barber was doing rather than trying to rip a kid off for a pair of Js.

In reality, it's a sad story but no matter how many times this kind of BS happens some people just don't learn that there are way more important things in life than owning a pair of sneakers that will make you look 'cool.'

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NEWS: Former Nike Employee Pleads ‘Guilty’ to selling stolen samples

Former Nike Employee Pleads ‘Guilty’ to selling stolen samples

“DON’T Do It”

This past Wednesday (12/17) 33-year-old Kyle K. Yamaguchi of Portland, Oregon pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Portland to conspiracy to transport, receive and sell stolen goods for shipping 42 stolen Nike sneakers to a buyer in Florida in April 2013 for $62,000, according to OregonLive.

Yamaguchi worked as a Nike promotional product manager between July 2006 and January 2012. It was during that time that he ordered sample sneakers to the company’s headquarters and arranged to sell them to 35-year-old Jason Keating of Fort Meyers, Florida. Upon Keating parting ways with the company in January 2012, he then enlisted his successor, Tung Ho, as the plug and acted as the middle man between the two.

According to the formal indictment, Keating paid $679,650 for more than 630 pairs of shoes that Yamaguchi and Ho stole from Nike between September 2012 to March 2014.

Yamaguchi received a percentage of the shoe sale profits from Keating, who offered them to other collectors and small retailers across the country, prosecutors said.Police seized nearly 1,950 pairs of Nike sneakers from Ho’s home during a raid last March, according to a criminal complaint. He admitted to investigators that he had stolen hundreds of pairs of Nike Look See shoes and either sold them on eBay or through Yamaguchi, the complaint said.Ho claimed he made $15,000 selling the sneakers on eBay, the complaint said.According to a federal search warrant, Ho ordered 46 pairs of LeBron James branded sneakers in May 2012 that the company couldn’t account for. In February of this year, investigators found one of the pairs of sneakers suspected of being stolen by Ho, a limited “MVP” edition of LeBron IX shoes, advertised on eBay for $20,000.

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-Jamaal Fisher (@jamaalfisher)

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