To clarify my above post...
The Monterey mentioned in the news article is Monterey Tennessee. Monterey TN is located about halfway between Nashville and Knoxville.
Seems to me there’s been other activity down in this area of TN but I can’t recall if any of it was related to these cell phones.
Interesting that they deemed it necessary to travel all the way to Kentucky and Tennessee from Michigan just to buy cell phones. IIRC, the ones who purchased all units around here were also from Michigan.
Perhaps they just wanted to take in the “Grand Ole Opry”.