Four men are facing criminal charges after Wayne County prosecutors say they ran a scheme to steal new Ford car and truck parts and sell them online. Wissam Faraj, 35, of Canton; Aiman Kahil, 25, of Dearborn; Firas Kahil, 36, of Dearborn; and Badr Kahil, 63, of Dearborn were all charged on Tuesday with crimes connected to the alleged operation.
According to the Wayne County Prosecutor's Office, as reported by ClickOnDetroit, Aiman Kahil allegedly ordered parts from Faraj, a former Ford employee. Faraj then allegedly stole the parts from the Ford Motor Company Dearborn Rouge Plant and delivered them to Startec Auto Parts, where they were sold, prosecutors said. All four men are charged with one count of conducting a criminal enterprise, one count of receiving and concealing property worth more than $1,000 but less than $20,000, and four counts of receiving and concealing property worth more than $20,000, per the outlet's report.
Charges Follow a Long-Running Investigation
A date for the men's next court appearance had not been set as of Tuesday, the same report notes. Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy described the case as a detailed stolen auto parts ring involving Ford Motor Company parts, according to a FOX 2 Detroit video segment, which characterized the recovered parts as numbering in the thousands.
This isn't the first time investigators have described an alleged parts-theft pipeline running through the Dearborn area. Dearborn police previously said an earlier phase of the alleged scheme stretched on for more than two years, with parts taken from plants in Wayne, Dearborn, and Flat Rock, according to a separate FOX 2 Detroit report. Police in that investigation said the stolen parts were taken to a third-party Detroit auto shop and resold on eBay.
Earlier Arrests Pointed to a Multimillion-Dollar Operation
Back in May 2025, Dearborn police said four men, including a Ford employee, were arrested in connection with what they described as a multimillion-dollar theft operation involving Ford parts and accessories, according to the Detroit Free Press. Police said at the time that the parts had been stolen from Ford's Rouge Complex in Dearborn, the Michigan Assembly Plant in Wayne, and the Flat Rock Assembly Plant, then funneled to a Detroit business where they were offered for sale.
Detectives arrested four men that May and served search warrants at a residence in Dearborn, a residence in Canton, and two businesses in Detroit, according to a report from Yahoo News describing the earlier phase of the investigation.
