SpaceX is making headlines, and this time, the drama is not about CEO Elon Musk — or Mars.
Kelvin Rodriguez-Moya, 35, was arrested for allegedly illegally trafficking 675 SpaceX Starlink terminals he had purchased with stolen bank card information and hacking existing customers.
Starlink terminals are mostly used to bring web access to distant areas all over the world through SpaceX’s satellites.
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The devices, that are value an estimated $400,000, were reportedly shipped to a house in New Jersey before he attempted to move them via pickup truck to Newark.
“Typically, what happens is, the suspect would use these devices to resell and gain some type of monetary profit,” Lawrence Township police Chief Chris Longo said. “We received information from a resident that there was a big number of deliveries going to a residence inside our town.”
Rodriguez-Moya was reportedly pulled over with roughly 220 devices in his truck while he was en path to Newark.
Rodriguez-Moya doesn’t live on the address where the satellites were delivered, and the actual residents were unaware of what was happening.
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SpaceX’s Director of Payment Risk and Fraud, Bennet Woo, dubbed the recovery of the terminals the “largest fraud recovery thus far by an order of magnitude.”
Rodriguez-Moya was officially charged with receiving stolen property and trafficking stolen property (each within the second degree) and has a detention hearing set for March 8.