Two of the collected men provided confidential information that helped target customers.

Five New Jersey residents and several others face federal charges for their roles in an international network that stole thousands of iPhones shipments and other electronic devices from all over the country, authorities said.

Wilson Peralta Tavarez, 28, from Belleville, Alejandro, then 45 -year -old Castillo, Ecker Montero Hernández, 25, Jean Luis Díaz Domínguez, 24 and Luis Núñez, 23, were charged on Wednesday the conspiracy to transport and receiving it from the property of the US Prosecutor’s Office., Announced on Wednesday.

Castillo and Tavarez were also accused of conspiracy of cable fraud, the office said in a statement.

Ring members identified valuable packages to steal through the creation and use of automated computer scripts developed by Demetrio Reyes Martínez, a resident of the 37 -year -old Dominican Republic, federal prosecutors said.

The scripts scratched data from FEDEX monitoring systems and an important cell supplier from the United States that did not identify in the launch.

The members also bribed the corrupt employees of the unidentified cell supplier, including Castillo and Tavarez, to provide confidential information about the company’s clients, the office said. The information that includes customer orders, names, monitoring numbers and delivery addresses.

Some members of the ring, known as dispatators, obtained and sold the delivery information and others, known as runners, bought this information and stole the packages, authorities said.

Andrickson Jerez, 28, of Bronx, Raimond Cabrera de Leon, 31, from New York, and Luis Marte Tavares, 33, from Brooklyn, operated from a house in the Bronx where they sold the devices stolen from “an almost constant flow of people”, according to the statement.

Joel Suriel, 31, from Brooklyn, directed a place where he received bulk deliveries of stolen devices from all over the country, authorities said.

Suriel directed a location of the fence in Brooklyn, where he received bulk deliveries of stolen devices throughout the country, even by Hernández, Núñez and Domínguez, the office said. That trio traveled through the country stealing iPhones, iPads, Samsung phones and other electronic devices, authorities said.

On one occasion when Fedex’s security seized the stolen iPhones of a shipment sent by Núñez and Domínguez, Núñez complained to Fedex’s customer service that his iPhones had been stolen, federal prosecutors said.

“The ‘pirates of the Porche de la Nueva Era’, these accused criminals adapted their alleged scheme to modern times, but were arrested below to do so successfully,” said an interim special agent of the New York field office in charge of Michael Alfonso in a statement.