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Caffeine fix? Coffee wholesaler sues brokerage over missing $84,500 load

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Coffee Holding Co. ( NASDAQ : JVA ) of Staten Island , New York , a wholesale green coffee roaster and trading company, filed suit on Jan. 10 against Ryaan Logistics Group of Prosper , Texas , in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York .

The suit claims that RyaAn Logistics brokered the load to Florida -based AFC Trucking , but an investigation later determined the trucking company's identity and DOT number had been stolen and its information had been changed online.

Coffee Holding claims the brokerage was negligent in vetting the carrier and “had a duty to ensure the driver who picked up the coffee load was in fact the.