Source: United States Department of Justice Criminal Division
United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Jay Clayton, announced today that JOSE CESARI, a/k/a “Cry,” was sentenced to 63 months in prison for conspiring to commit—and committing—theft from interstate or foreign shipments. Between approximately 2022 and 2024, CESARI led the “Beer Theft Enterprise,” a Bronx-based criminal organization focused on breaking into railyards and beverage distribution facilities throughout the Northeast and stealing beer—primarily Corona and Modelo, shipped from Mexico—to bring back to the Bronx to sell.