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• Investigators caught their targets in a puzzling money-making scheme in Rochelle Park, New Jersey.
NBC New York reported that Detective Nick Mercoun and his partner arrested 77-year-old Alfredo Rodriguez and 54-year-old Hector Cortes, whom they dubbed the Shopping Cart Bandits.
The two had stolen at least 140 carts from the ShopRite grocery, which Mercoun believes they were selling for about $200 wholesale.
"It was about $28,000 worth of shopping carts," he said.
The Food Marketing Institute estimates that 2 million shopping carts are stolen each year.
Who knew? Rodriguez and Cortes were rolling along at the Bergen County Jail. [NBC New York, 4/13/2024]