A man was arrested after he allegedly defrauded 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 company merchandise,” including more than 400 toilets, from SW Corportation in a Brownsville, according to an arrest report.
Gomez was caught after an employee became aware in Sept. 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 being 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 was able to find out that the seller had access to bulk inventory, the arrest report states. The seller told the employee the date on which she’d received “a pallet of toilets,” allowing the employee to check surveillance cameras and internal records.
When the employee checked the cameras, she saw inventory being removed without authorization into a moving truck, including 13 toilets on “pallets being loaded quickly and without paperwork.”
Video on multiple other dates allegedly showed Gomez “loading pallets of toilets and tubs” into the moving truck, “indicating a repeated pattern of diverting company merchandise from the premises rather than a single isolated occurrence.”
In early October, another employee reported that Gomez had “on numerous occasions, requested preparation of special orders of toilets requiring immediate pickup.”
“When loaders or shipping personnel requested documentation or shipment paperwork for these special orders, defendant Gomez repeatedly stated the shipments were handled by him and that no paperwork was required, which is inconsistent with standard inventory and shipping controls for high-value product,” the arrest report describes.
The sheriff’s office said that between June 23 and Sept. 29, 2025, Gomez at least 10 different times loaded or directed someone to load pallets of unauthorized merchandise, including toilets, tubs, shower doors and saunas, totaling over $400,000.
When deputies went to arrest Gomez, he allegedly provided consent to search his vehicle, where detectives found several legal pads “containing quantities, dollar amounts, and notations including words such as toilets and water heaters.” Gomez also gave limited consent to “search his efficiency at the residence for toilets.”
He was charged with first-degree grand theft and organized fraud and booked into Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center.
