Posted on 11/06/2011 11:25:38 AM PST by freespirited
Thieves have been cleaning up stealing laundry detergent from stores in Prince George’s County, Md., but special investigators are making progress.
A special crime squad has made five arrests and is looking for 15 other suspects.
“Boosters” will load shopping carts with laundry detergent and then race out of the store to their cars to make a getaway. One Safeway store was losing about $15,000 per month in Tide alone.
Surveillance video showed a man stealing Tide from a Wegman’s, police said. Forty minutes later, with police watching, that man’s accomplice sold the Tide at a nail salon. Police seized 18 jugs seized, 27 packages of Gillette Fusion razors, 11 bottles of body wash and two Apple computers
A special crime squad also raided the Universal Supermarket in Silver Spring this week, seizing 129 jugs of Tide and 72 cans of baby formula.
“So he paid five bucks for this, and he’s selling it for almost $25,” Prince George’s County police Lt. Brad Pyle said. “That’s almost a 500 percent profit. Yeah, liquid gold.”
Today I actually worked out a scenario in a store on how to score FREE Tide again but before I could purchase, I came down with a bad stomachache and beelined home. I actually did score a couple of 50 oz bottles of Tide a few weeks ago as well as some travel sized Tide packets more recently. However, reading here how valuable some consider Tide to be, I wanted to score more today. Oh well, I’ll get more this week. However, I did score a whole bunch of FREE first aid kits today.
The thieves thought they made a clean get-a-way, but the police caught them so I guess now they’re all washed up.
DING! DING! DING! Give the man a cigar. This is exactly what is happening. I've seen this in Houston. Nail salons are a major social gathering point for Hispanic women. This is organized crime from our neighbors / guests from South of the border.
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