That’s what I was told.
There is a place that buys scrap located just off I-10 and Claiborne that has a sign that they will buy no scrap that is delivered in a grocery basket.
My guess is that crackheads would round up scrap in a grocery basket and sell the grocery basket.
The mental image of a crackhead rolling a manhole cover down the street so he can scrap it makes me laugh.