A man was arrested after allegedly defrauding a manufacturer of high-end bathroom products by stealing $400,000 worth of toilets and other materials.
Paul Joe Gomez, 37, is accused of “diverting commercial property,” including more than 400 restrooms, from SW Corporation in Brownsville, according to an arrest report.
Gomez was caught after an employee noticed in September 2025 that someone was advertising and selling SW Coportations Anzzi brand smart toilets through Facebook Marketplace.
That employee told the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office that “the listings depicted Anzzi products offered for sale at prices and in quantities inconsistent with legitimate retail distribution.”
The employee then contacted the seller posing as an interested buyer and learned the seller had access to bulk inventory, the arrest report said. The salesperson told the employee the date she received “a pallet of toilets,” allowing the employee to check surveillance cameras and internal data.
When the employee checked the cameras, she saw inventory being removed into a moving truck without permission, including 13 toilets on “pallets that were loaded quickly and without paperwork.”
Video on multiple other dates allegedly showed Gomez “loading pallets of toilets and bathtubs” into the moving van, “indicating a repeated pattern of diverting company items from the site rather than a single isolated incident.”
In early October, another employee reported that Gomez had “requested on numerous occasions that special orders of restrooms be prepared for immediate pickup.”
“When loaders or shipping personnel requested documentation or shipping paperwork for these special orders, Defendant Gomez repeatedly stated that the shipments were being handled by him and that no paperwork was required, which is inconsistent with standard inventory and shipping controls for high-value products,” the arrest report details.
The sheriff’s office said that on at least 10 separate occasions between June 23 and September 29, 2025, Gomez loaded or directed someone to load pallets of unauthorized goods, including toilets, bathtubs, shower doors and saunas, totaling more than $400,000.
When officers went to arrest Gomez, he allegedly consented to a search of his vehicle, where detectives found several legal pads “containing quantities, dollar amounts and notes including words such as toilets and water heaters.” Gomez also gave limited permission to “search for toilets in his home.”
He was charged with first-degree theft and organized fraud and booked into Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center.
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