Maryland police recently recovered around 15,000 stolen construction tools in a massive theft case, thanks to a quick-thinking Virginia carpenter looking for justice.
The Howard County Police Department announced the bust on late last month, calling the case "one of the largest and most expansive theft cases in the region in recent years."
Authorities said the cache of 15,000 tools, which were recently found in a storage facility, was worth between $3 and $5 million, Fox Business reports.
The recover occurred because a carpenter, whose name has not been released, was determined to catch the suspects involved after having his vans broken into twice. He hid multiple AirTags in some of his larger tools to track the thieves if they returned, and they did.
The carpenter tracked the suspects to a storage facility and alerted authorities.
Detectives believe the tools were stolen from retail stores, businesses, vehicles, residential properties, and construction sites primarily in Maryland, Virginia, and Pennsylvania. The stolen tools were mostly kept in storage units in Howard County and detectives believe they were sold at a variety of locations and through different means.
