consignment

“It is ridiculous,” says fellow cheesemaker Tom Calver, whose cheddar was part of the stolen consignment.

Antique malls, consignment stores, flea markets, thrift stores and vintage shops: L.A. has it all when it comes to shopping for secondhand furniture.

He pleaded guilty to two counts of fraud for using clients’ funds to finance his lavish lifestyle and running a Ponzi-like scheme, taking timepieces that clients had asked him to sell on consignment and giving them to other customers who’d paid him to buy watches for them, prosecutors said.

The man behind a notorious consignment watch business in Beverly Hills has pleaded guilty and could face up to 20 years in prison, the U.S.

"We basically watched the criminals open up the particular parts of the consignment, where we knew the cocaine had been hidden and where we knew they thought it was," Mr Coles said.