UPS Employee Charged With Trying To steal iPhones In Northbrook

A UPS employee has been charged with trying to steal nearly $6,000 worth of iPhones on Tuesday morning in north suburban Northbrook.

Security officers stopped 21-year-old Khalil J. Harris at 10:41 a.m. Tuesday at the exit gate of a UPS facility in the 2500 block of Shermer Road, according to a statement from Northbrook police. The UPS employee had been trying to leave the facility with packages containing seven iPhones, with a total value of $5,792.

Harris, who lives in the 2600 block of East 92nd Street in Chicago, was taken into custody and charged with one felony count of theft, police said.