A Rochester, New York pawn shop owner is headed to the hoosegow after selling more than $6 million in goods stolen from area retailers on Amazon and eBay, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of New York announced Friday.
Thomas Nary operated Rochester Pawn & Gold from November 2015 to January 2019. In that time, he bought goods he knew were shoplifted from area retailers, including Walmart, Target, Wegmans, Home Depot, and Lowes.
Many of Nary’s contacts were drug addicts who used their portion of the proceeds to purchase more narcotics, resulting in numerous overdoses, the USAO-WDNY noted.