BRIDGETON, NJ — A 43-year-old man was sentenced to five years in state prison on Friday after he stole more than $75,000 worth of packages from Amazon, the Gloucester County Prosecutor's Office said.
Akeem Johnson, of Bridgeton, accepted a plea agreement for identity theft after posing as a co-worker.
Johnson worked for a third-party contractor who delivered Amazon packages to United States Post Office buildings.
According to court records, he did not deliver multiple pallets of shipments and used a colleague's identification card to get into an Amazon facility in Logan Township to get packages.
The goods were estimated at more than $75,000 in value.
He was also given concurrent sentences for two Cumberland County cases, officials added.
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