The phone will be sold for pennies on the dollar to an immigrant owned repair store that doesn’t ask any questions and then will go to a local sketchy wholesale

The phone will be sold for pennies on the dollar to an immigrant owned repair store that doesn’t ask any questions and then will go to a local sketchy wholesaler and then will go to one of about 15 or so companies in Dubai, Hong Kong or Shenzhen (for example https://www.hanggroup.com/price/ https://www.hanggroup.com/price/ https://www.lcdone.com/ https://www.lcdone.com/ https://www.actionlogistics.com/ https://www.actionlogistics.com/). A coordinated effort to shut down these companies could probably make phone thefts decline dramatically for at least a couple of months.