LOS ANGELES—A man who worked at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) for a cargo-handling company was sentenced Monday to 12 months behind bars for stealing gold bars that were part of an international shipment.
Marlon Moody, 39, of South Los Angeles, also was ordered to pay a $7,500 fine, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
Moody pleaded guilty last year to a federal charge of conspiracy to commit theft of an interstate or foreign shipment.
Co-defendant Brian Benson, 36, also of South Los Angeles, pleaded guilty to the same charge and was sentenced in November to four months behind bars.
Both men worked for Alliance Ground International, a company that provided ground handling services at LAX. On the evening of April 22, 2020, a shipment of gold bars arrived at LAX on Singapore Airlines. A total of 2,000 gold bars, each weighing 2.2 pounds and each valued at $56,000, were being shipped from Australia to New York at the direction of a Canadian bank….