A massive shipment of SEEQ protein powder valued at roughly $500,000 has been recovered in suburban Chicago, after investigators located the stolen cargo inside a warehouse in Bridgeview, Illinois. Authorities say the recovery involved the Cook County Sheriff’s Office Organized Retail Crime Unit, following a report from a supply chain company that a large shipment had gone missing.

According to the Cook County Sheriff’s Office information shared through local news coverage, the sequence looks like this:

The recovered quantity was reported as about 25,000 pounds of protein powder, a scale that puts this firmly in the cargo theft and organized retail crime lane, not a simple shoplifting story.

Here is what officials and reporting have confirmed:

What has not been clearly established publicly yet:

Supplement and functional food shipments are high-value targets for organized theft. They are:

For brands like SEEQ, a single stolen load is not just lost inventory. It creates downstream risk if the product is resold improperly, stored poorly, or ends up in questionable channels where customers blame the brand for quality issues.

Recovering $500,000 worth of product is a win, but the bigger story is what it signals. Cargo theft is now a real operational threat for high-demand wellness brands, especially those shipping large volumes through complex logistics networks.

If you see “too good to be true” supplement deals in random channels, this is exactly the kind of headline that explains why.