You won’t believe what Tyrone Rose and Shamara P. Simmons got up to. Brace yourselves, because they managed to rake in over $600K in stolen Taylor Swift Era tour tickets. That’s a lot of cash! These two must have thought they were slick, but guess what? They got caught!
Now, I know what you’re thinking – how did they pull this off?
According to Melinda Katz, a District Attorney in the Queens District, “Tyrone Rose, 20, and Shamara P. Simmons, 31, were arrested and arraigned last week on a criminal complaint charging them with grand larceny, computer tampering, and conspiracy.”
The two individuals who operated as third-party StubHub contractors in Jamaica stole ticket URLs and sent them to Rose and Simmons. They would earn a reported $600 thousand from the elaborate scheme.
“According to the charges, these defendants tried to use the popularity of Taylor Swift’s concert tour and other high-profile events to profit at the expense of others,” Melinda Katz said. She added, “They allegedly exploited a loophole in an offshore ticket vendor to steal tickets to the biggest concert tour of the last decade and then resold those seats for an extraordinary profit of more than $600,000.”
The moral of this story is that crime rarely pays off. Tyrone and Shamara learned that the hard way. So next time you think about pulling off a major ticket heist, remember this cautionary tale. It’s simply not worth it in the end.
