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    Deputies arrest man with 1,300 cans of stolen baby food

    Deputies arrest man with 1,300 cans of stolen baby food



    Haines City, Florida — Polk County Sheriff's Deputies say they have arrested a man who was in posession of more than 1,000 cans of stolen baby food.

    Noe Ruiz, an illegal immigrant, was arrested during an “Over the Limit, Under Arrest” traffic safety checkpoint initiative in Haines City on March 29.

    Deputies say that during the checkpoint, deputies stopped a red 2000 Chevrolet Tahoe being driven by Ruiz and asked for his driver's license. Deputies say he produced what appeared to be a fraudulent Mexican driver's license.

    Ruiz was first arrested for no valid driver's license and possession of a counterfeit license. As part of his arrest, authorities searched his vehicle, where they found 77 grocery bags, each containing at least 18 cans of formula. In total, deputies say they recovered over 1,300 cans with an estimated value of $18,400.

    The owner of the Tahoe, Roman Rico-Ruiz, of Houston, Texas, came to post bond for Noe Ruiz. Deputies say he admitted both men were in the country illegally. They are now being held without bond pending their transfer to ICE.

    Both have been charged with grand theft for the baby formula. Ruiz also faces charges of giving a false name to law enforcement, forgery, and uttering a forged instrument.

    As of April 3, routing numbers on the cans showed they came from Winn Dixie, Publix, and Albertson's stores from as far away as St. Augustine.

    According to a survey by the Food Marketing Group, a Washington D.C. trade group, baby formula was the fourth most-often-shoplifted item last year. These latest arrests come just two weeks after three Lakeland residents were arrested in Pasco County for stealing baby formula there.



    Tampa Bay's 10 News and the Polk County Sheriff's Office




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    Wonder who the food was intended for?
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    they sell it to small stores that take WIC payments
    its a fast cash conversion big profiit
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    Oh, eye-see!
    Thanks jim!
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    http://www.mcall.com/news/local/all-b1_ ... 0708.story
    March 10, 2007
    2 charged in baby formula thefts
    Supervisor, truck driver teamed up to steal from warehouse, police say.
    By Manuel Gamiz Jr. Of The Morning Call
    An Upper Macungie warehouse supervisor helped steal more than $200,000 worth of baby formula and other items destined for ShopRite supermarkets, authorities say.

    Berks-Lehigh Regional police said thieves paid the supervisor $5,500 to help load the products and get them past security checkpoints at Wakefern, the marketing and distribution arm for ShopRite supermarkets, at 8301 Industrial Drive.

    The supervisor, Daniel C. Vertilus, 21, of 327 Springhouse Road, South Whitehall, was charged Tuesday in the thefts, which police say occurred Dec. 22, 2006, and Feb. 15 and involved more than $200,000 worth of goods.

    Angelo Rodriguez, a truck driver, was charged Friday in the Feb. 15 theft. He said he was offered money by a warehouse supervisor, and Vertilus helped get him out of the distribution center with the stolen goods by getting him a pass to get past security, police say. Rodriguez then delivered $56,000 in formula to the Bronx, N.Y.

    In court documents filed this week, police also name another supervisor and truck driver in the heists, and ''participants yet to be named,'' who have not been charged.

    Rodriguez, 43, of Brentwood, N.Y., was arraigned before District Judge Charles Crawford of Upper Macungie on charges of theft, receiving stolen property and conspiracy, and sent to Lehigh County Prison under $75,000 bail. Vertilus also faces those charges, plus theft by deception, and is in the prison under $95,000 bail.

    According to court documents:

    The investigation began Jan. 23 when police were called to Wakefern on a report that pallets of baby food, ketchup, walnuts and oil were missing from the warehouse in the previous two months.

    The next day, loss prevention officials and a warehouse manager met to discuss the 11 missing pallets and $160,000 in baby formula and other products taken from Nov. 27 to Dec. 26, 2006.

    Warehouse officials said the items had to have been stolen using a large vehicle, possibly a tractor-trailer, because the pallets and products were too large to fit inside a conventional vehicle. They suspected several employees were involved, including a truck driver.

    Three weeks later, a loss prevention official called a Berks-Lehigh police investigator to report the disappearance of six more pallets of baby formula, valued at $56,000.

    More than 70 digital cameras positioned throughout the warehouse and outside in the lots captured Vertilus and Rodriguez taking the formula, police say.

    During an interview with a Berks-Lehigh investigator Tuesday, Vertilus admitted his role and said two truck drivers offered him cash to take the formula.

    On Dec. 22, he said, he was offered $2,500 by a truck driver who was named as a co-defendant but has not been charged. Vertilus said he agreed and had other employees, who were not named in a criminal complaint, help him and paid them.

    After loading the truck, Vertilus said, he produced an unauthorized ''red sticker'' and a false code to help the truck driver get past guards with the goods. He met the trucker at the Wawa at Shantz Road and Route 100 in Upper Macungie, where the driver paid him in cash.

    Vertilus said that on Feb. 15, Rodriguez offered him $3,000 for a similar heist. Again, Vertilus helped load the formula into the truck, along with empty pallets to make it appear nothing was inside.

    Vertilus signed a vehicle pass saying the truck was carrying only 30 empty pallets, and it passed through the security checkpoint. Vertilus said he met Rodriguez at Industrial Boulevard and Route 100, where Rodriguez paid him.

    Rodriguez was arrested Friday when he arrived at the distribution center and admitted his involvement in the heist. He said, however, he did not approach Vertilus, but another supervisor approached him two weeks before the heist about making ''a quick buck.''

    He said that when he got to the distribution center Feb. 15, the supervisor asked him if he wanted to do the heist on that day, and he agreed. Rodriguez said a man loaded the baby formula in his truck, and Vertilus loaded the empty pallets. He said Vertilus told him not to worry about the guards because he would sign a pass to get him through.

    Rodriguez said he met the other supervisor, and they drove to the Bronx, where they delivered six pallets of baby formula in front of a gated business yard. He said Vertilus, the other supervisor and an unidentified man unloaded his truck by hand and placed the formula in two white vans, a job that took them four hours.

    Rodriguez was paid $1,500 cash, police said.

    Wakefern officials and Berks-Lehigh Regional police did not return calls for comment.

    Law enforcement officials in the region have said stolen baby formula is sold on the black market, used to cut drugs or passed off as an illegal drug.

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    Supervisor, truck driver teamed up to steal from warehouse, police say.

    And so it begins.......
    Wonder how much more 17,000 Mexican truckers could steal?

    Is there a more poignant case of illegals stealing food right out of American babies' mouthes?

    edited for content and spelling because I am an editors nightmare!

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    Is there a more poignant case of illegals stealing food right out of American babies' mouthes?
    They are stealing it out of the anchor babies mouths too.

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