Prosecutors say new Ford parts were leaving the Rouge Plant in Dearborn, Michigan, and turning up for sale online. A Ford employee is accused of filling requests for stolen stock, with a father and his two sons handling the sales.
On November 10, Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy announced six felony charges against each of the four men. She traced the parts through plant visits and trips to an auto shop. A text exchange listed an order for headlights.
The accused are former Ford employee Wissam Faraj, 35, of Canton, and Dearborn residents Aiman Kahil, 25, Firas Kahil, 36, and their father, Badr Kahil, 63. All four were associated with Startec Auto, and Faraj lost his Ford job in 2025.
“It was lucrative, shameless, and absolutely illegal,” Worthy said of the scheme. The charges cover five dates in March and April 2025. Police work on the case stretched into this fall.
Special Orders
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Worthy described an arrangement in which Aiman Kahil requested parts for Faraj to steal. Faraj would take them from Ford and deliver them to Startec Auto Parts, where the three Kahils would sell them.
One headlight order was worth $22,400, based on Ford’s prices. Worthy read the list of requested lights from a text exchange. Sales took place mainly on eBay, though Worthy also identified Facebook and the storefront as sales outlets.
Worthy placed Faraj at the plant in both his own vehicle and vehicles registered to Startec. She also presented footage she identified as Faraj using a forklift to move parts and delivering stolen goods to the shop.
The Wrong Boxes
Ford employees noticed missing parts and misplaced shipping containers on March 10, 2025. Those hard plastic boxes were meant to move parts between Ford and its suppliers. Worthy called them “dunnage.”
Their location mattered because they belonged within that supply chain. Worthy later pointed to the same type of containers at Startec as evidence supporting the case.
Ford began its own probe and reported the thefts to Dearborn police on March 19. Police bought parts from Startec on April 8, May 1, and May 5 to gather evidence. On May 5, they also searched the businesses and the defendants’ homes.
Going through the evidence took far longer than those buys. The case involved thousands of hours of security footage, along with phone data, messages, money records, and recovered parts. Further work on the case ended in September 2026.
Terms Apply
Each man faces six felony charges. One is conducting a criminal enterprise; the other five are receiving and concealing stolen property. Four property counts cover goods worth $20,000 or more. The fifth covers goods worth $1,000 or more but less than $20,000.
The prosecutor’s official court update confirms that all four were arraigned November 10 in Dearborn’s 19th District Court. Faraj received a $200,000 cash bond, while each of the other three received a $100,000 cash bond, all with GPS monitoring.
Under the bond terms, they must give up their passports and stay in Michigan. They also cannot transfer assets or property, or have contact with Ford sites and three business locations. A probable cause conference is set for December 2, followed by a preliminary examination on December 9.
All parties are presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty in a court of law.