Pair charged with stealing Taylor Swift Eras tickets made over $600K reselling them, prosecutors say
Two people were arrested and charged in a scheme to steal and resell online tickets for Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour, making over $600,000 in the process, the Queens, New York, prosecutor’s office said.
Two people were arrested and charged in a scheme to steal and resell online tickets for Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour, making over $600,000 in the process, the Queens, New York, prosecutor’s office said.
Tyrone Rose, 20, of Kingston, Jamaica, and Shamara Simmons, 31, of the Jamaica section of Queens, New York, were arrested on charges of grand larceny, conspiracy and computer tampering last week, the Queens District Attorney’s Office said Monday.
The tickets were stolen from StubHub by two people working for a third-party contractor in Kingston, the district attorney’s office said in a statement.
The URLs for the tickets were then sent to Queens, where Simmons and another person who has since died downloaded them and re-sold them on StubHub, the office said.
Around 350 StubHub orders, resulting in the theft of around 993 tickets, were hijacked in the cybercrime scheme, prosecutors said.
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