By Daily Mail Reporter PUBLISHED: 10:49 EST, 17 November 2012 | UPDATED: 11:01 EST, 17 November 2012 Brazen: Thieves made off $1.9m worth of Apple iPad minis from the JFK airport cargo hold - the same site as the 1978 Lufthansa heist which inspired mob film Goodfellas A cargo worker has been arrested over the brazen theft of $1.9 million in iPad minis from JFK Airport, according to authorities. Federal agents arrested Renel Rene Richardson earlier this week because he allegedly made too many inquiries to co-workers about the incoming shipment of sought-after iPads, the NY Post reported. Richardson also asked about where forklifts might be found, according to court papers obtained by the NY Post.
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Feds always suspected an inside job; targeted overly-curious worker who allegedly asked too many questions about arrival of shipment
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It is exactly the same building raided during the Lufthansa heist, which inspired the Scorcese gangland film
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JFK worker arrested but it's not known if stolen iPads were recovered
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The @placeholder thieves might have gotten away with more, but were foiled by three other workers returning from dinner break.
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The gangland bloodbath was recounted in one of the most famous sequences of the @placeholder film GoodFellas, a film which has now reached cult status.