A Livermore man who worked in information technology has pleaded guilty to selling over a half-million dollars worth of laptop computers that he ordered for his company and then stole, the U.S. Department of Justice said.

Andrew Halvorsen, 49, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to transport stolen property, the DOJ said Monday.

Halvorsen worked as the senior director of information technology for a cloud-based machine data analytics company in Redwood City, according to prosecutors. He was responsible for ordering Apple MacBooks for employees, but in 2019 he began stealing them from the company. Halvorsen would sell the MacBooks for cash to a person who then resold and shipped them outside of the state.

In total, Halvorsen sold at least 141 laptops at a cost to his employer of over $535,000.

Halvorsen is scheduled to be sentenced on April 15 and he is facing a maximum sentence of five years in federal prison and a fine of up to $250,000.

Katy St. Clair got her start in journalism by working in the classifieds department at the East Bay Express during the height of alt weeklies, then sweet talked her way into becoming staff writer, submissions editor, and music editor. She has been a columnist in the East Bay Express, SF Weekly, and the San Francisco Examiner. Starting in 2015, she begrudgingly scaled the inverted pyramid at dailies such as the Vallejo Times-Herald, The Vacaville Reporter, and the Daily Republic. She has her own independent news site and blog that covers the delightfully dysfunctional town of Vallejo, California, where she also collaborates with the investigative team at Open Vallejo. A passionate advocate for people with developmental disabilities, she serves on both the Board of the Arc of Solano and the Arc of California. She lives in Vallejo.