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UPS Appoints Philippe Gilbert President, Supply Chain Solutions

UPS (NYSE: UPS) today announced Philippe Gilbert will join the company as President, Supply Chain Solutions, effective January, 2019. He will also join the UPS Management Committee, the company’s senior-most leadership group. Gilbert will report to UPS Chief Operating Officer Jim Barber and will be based at the company’s global headquarters in Atlanta.

The UPS President, Supply Chain Solutions role is a newly created position. Gilbert will be responsible for Global Logistics and Distribution, Global Freight Forwarding, UPS Freight as well as the technology-driven truckload freight brokerage business at Coyote.

Most recently, Gilbert served as Regional CEO of the Americas for DB Schenker Logistics, based in Miami, Florida. In this role he led air, ocean, and land logistics in the United States, Canada, and eight countries in Latin America. He previously was Regional CEO for West Europe from 2013 to 2015, based in Paris, France.

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Police: UPS driver stole packages, sold luxury items on eBay – WAVE3

Detectives arrested a UPS driver in Louisville who they suspect stole dozens of packages and some factory inventory, selling at least some of what he stole.

Louisville Metro Police believe Jon Keen, 38, may be involved in the theft of more than 60 packages from various victims, according to one of his arrest citations.

What led officers to Keen was likely a shipment of custom luxury watches that disappeared.

The victim, a Royal Air Force Captain, told police he designed seven custom watches from the Bremont Watch Company worth more than $45,000. He never received the watches from UPS.

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FedEx unit to pay $35.3 million to New York State to settle cigarette-trafficking charges – FreightWaves

The ground delivery unit of FedEx Corp. will pay the state of New York $35.3 million to settle three lawsuits alleging that FedEx partnered with cigarette trafficking companies to ship hundreds of thousands of untaxed cigarettes to New York residents, the state announced today

The state charged that the FedEx unit, FedEx Ground, violated federal anti-cigarette trafficking laws as well as assurances made nearly 13 years ago that it would cease residential cigarette deliveries and comply with the laws barring them. According to FedEx Ground, the state and New York City, the plaintiffs in the case, had originally sought nearly $700 million.

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Suspect shot by police dies after standoff at New Jersey UPS facility – Reuters

A 39-year-old gunman opened fire at a United Parcel Service Inc facility in New Jersey and held two employees hostage for hours on Monday before police fatally shot him, officials said.

William Owens barricaded himself and two women inside the sorting facility in Logan Township and police sent a heavily armed SWAT team to the location, about 25 miles (40 km) southwest of downtown Philadelphia, the New Jersey Attorney General’s Office said in a statement.

The standoff ended when Owens was shot while exiting the building with the hostages, the statement said.

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‘Active shooter’ situation, shots fired at New Jersey UPS facility, police say – Fox News

A man who took his ex-girlfriend and another person hostage inside a New Jersey United Parcel Service facility on Monday sparked an active shooter situation that sent police rushing to the scene, sources told Fox News.

Logan Township police told Fox News that “shots have been fired” at the facility, which is located about 20 miles south of Philadelphia. A law enforcement source later told Fox News that no one was struck by the gunfire and the alleged shooter was a man, known to local law enforcement, who took his ex-girlfriend and another person hostage inside the building.

The incident at the facility was first reported at about 9 a.m., prompting a large response from local and county officials. Video and photos from the scene showed police cruisers surrounding the loading dock area of the building in Logan Township. Armed officers could be seen crouching behind one of the vehicles.