2 men allegedly stole 140 shopping carts from a NJ store, leading to shortage | NBC New York
Two men arrested in Newark are being called career criminals; they're allegedly swiping shopping carts, making off with tens of thousands of dollars worth of them.
Police arrested 77-year-old Alfredo Rodriguez and 54-year-old Hector Cortes, calling them the "Shopping Cart Bandits."
The pair took at least 140 carts - worth nearly $30,000 potentially.
News 4's Pat Battle reports.
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They have a good security team, but found out carts are being stolen after 140 are gone😂
@addanametocontinue
3 ай бұрын
Security team is probably focused on theft inside the store, but yeah, it was a odd comment to make, given the situation, lol.
@blackcherry6877
3 ай бұрын
Same thing I was thinking. "Real good security" would have at least caught on to this by cart 20 not 120.
@Righteous1ist
3 ай бұрын
From my observation, security are either purposely letting innocent looking ones get away with everything in front of their eyes, or too scared to do anything to the tough and bad looking guys and also letting them get away with everything. The normal people is what their dumbass pay attention to and harass, just so they can pretend they're doing their job.
@Roadrunner0077
3 ай бұрын
@@blackcherry6877no you wouldn't ...they have over 500 won't notice till a huge chunk gone
@Roadrunner0077
3 ай бұрын
@@addanametocontinueyou wouldn't notice small amounts carts gone if got over 500
I'm 57 and this 54 year old could pass for my dad.
@PuffinSmurf
3 ай бұрын
Welll, step dad maybe lmao
@faithcyan2462
3 ай бұрын
I almost died. Lol 😂 🤣
@JustReed
3 ай бұрын
I'm 65 and he looks older than me. Daddy?
@iheartlofi
3 ай бұрын
Fructose and processed food destroyed their faces.
@user-rx9ds5rm9x
3 ай бұрын
Drugs
That's a real old looking 54 year old.
@86GT11
3 ай бұрын
Yep
@nadagabri5783
3 ай бұрын
Can’t be 54 got to be 75 and up
@seanmc7128
3 ай бұрын
Hard life does that to you
@erickomar3752
3 ай бұрын
Drugs are bad.
@mannidennis1031
3 ай бұрын
lol cocaine is a hell off a drug 😂😂😂
As someone who pulled carts for 2 and a half years at Walmart, the cart pusher noticed before the manager.
He's a rough 54 years old.
@nunyabuziness8421
3 ай бұрын
I just turned 54 and he makes me look 30😂
@vision821k4
3 ай бұрын
@@nunyabuziness8421 hahaha im 18 your old you lived with dinosaurs i bet haha 🤣😂🤣😂
@will7its
3 ай бұрын
@@vision821k4 Yeah but your a low T marshmallow.....🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@cormacthem8406
3 ай бұрын
He’s from Newark, a rough life will age you.
@Dusty42096
3 ай бұрын
I think he looks hot!
People like this are the reason why some markets won’t let you take the cart out the store to your car
@Killer_Turnip
3 ай бұрын
That and they would have to employ someone to gather all the carts.
@askew9976
3 ай бұрын
Aldi has a coin system, but an employee goes out periodically to gather carts left sprawled in the lot. Nobody extra…
@vision821k4
3 ай бұрын
Don't worry, I've seen an Indian women wipe her butt with a t-shirt we were selling. We are becoming a third world country. Why do you think we all have hundreds of apartments cropping up all across the nation? Good-bye Middle Class, and they will just have us fight with the poor illegals now who are one step away from me sadly referring to them as animals. No, it's not all of you, most of you are fine...sort of. You're still going to block the isles with your shopping cart since no one taught you better, you're still going to decide the best place to put on your kid's coat is the front door that everyone is trying to go in and out of. You will miss the big DO NOT ENTER sign and probably break the door to get out, or bang on the credit card machine until it breaks like it's stuck vending machine. But hey, at least you're not violent (most of you). I watched a lady take a broom and knock down like 15 hooks sandals were on, and she turns around to me and smiles and replies, "Like getting fruit from tree." What?!??!
@AEMoreira81
3 ай бұрын
Many stores these days have locking wheels on their arts.
@redpilledhispanic1239
3 ай бұрын
Dollar Tree is an example of
Bubbles?
@EnlistedBombin
3 ай бұрын
So proud boys @trailerparkboys
@darrylramsey6232
3 ай бұрын
😆
@robertwilliams3527
3 ай бұрын
Seriously 😂
@George-dy3pt
3 ай бұрын
😂😂😂😂
@mikemike5223
3 ай бұрын
Love it!!!!! Great show!
When you run out of meth....
@zzizahacallar
3 ай бұрын
FR
@poochinsky
2 ай бұрын
meth is a country thing. its probably crack here.
Senior citizens stealing shopping cart😮 Weird
@colliswilliams8992
3 ай бұрын
54 isn't a senior citizen
@will7its
3 ай бұрын
Biden economy......
@HummaKavula-DontVoteForStupid
3 ай бұрын
@@will7itswoooooooow!!!! So there’s never been theft in this country due to bad economy??? Damn! My history teachers lied to me!!! Thanks for dropping facts
@will7its
3 ай бұрын
@@HummaKavula-DontVoteForStupid Did I say that? Noooooooooooooo It's just much worse now........Reading comprehension try it.
@HummaKavula-DontVoteForStupid
3 ай бұрын
@@will7its it’s called an inference. It was actually your fault for not providing us any more information as to what you were implying. So what are you implying? What is it about the “Biden economy” that validates this story?
They never realized till 140 carts went missing?🙃
Where was Cart Narc?
The Walmart I used to work at had a guy caught on surveillance cameras put two of our brand new motor carts in the bed of his pick up and take off. Got to wonder how much those cost.
@WASTEOFTIMESTUDIOS
3 ай бұрын
Between 2-4K depending on brand, model, and seller.
And now you just made the problem worse by putting this idea in everybody’s head. Never even occurred to me they were that expensive or profitable.
@danarespress164
3 ай бұрын
Now they will lock those up and place more prices on groceries 🫠
@AEMoreira81
3 ай бұрын
Most stores have locking wheels on their carts for this reason. Gatekeeper Systems has an entire business addressing this issue only.
@electron6825
3 ай бұрын
I guess we should ban all news now 🙄
@ericbattista9341
3 ай бұрын
@@AEMoreira81I don’t know what stores you shop at but “most” is highly inaccurate. Never seen a single one with that
@farouk7336
3 ай бұрын
Where have you been all these years, shopping carts have always been expensive for grocery stores to buy and replace. You just never hear of anyone stealing this many at one time. Carts are made of steal and steal can go from 20-50 cents per pound. The average cart is 50-70 pounds.
$200 each for a used shopping cart? GTFOH !
@cuscrapping
3 ай бұрын
Yep. They're $500-700 new!
@George-dy3pt
3 ай бұрын
😂😂😂
@Bigghaze
3 ай бұрын
Right
@DandyDan123
3 ай бұрын
I have 20 for 150 each if you are interested? I’m joking but that is nuts!
@stelity
3 ай бұрын
@@cuscrapping wtf... that's highway robbery... They're not worth that much. I could buy a hand truck at that price.
Bubbles is NOT going to be happy with this disruption to his supply chain.
@derrickscott9469
3 ай бұрын
😆The Wire is one of my favorite shows and Andre Royo crushed that role.
@hasteandfury2424
3 ай бұрын
Oh you’re so funny. 🖕🏼
@hiya2112
3 ай бұрын
@@hasteandfury2424 what exactly triggered you?
@sunflowing
3 ай бұрын
@@hiya2112He's irl Bubbles
@joshharris7004
3 ай бұрын
Haha legit thought the same
Cash money for shopping carts. What isn't bolted down will be taken especially if it has four wheels.
@user-er3ri6sc3j
3 ай бұрын
@JaneDoe-dr6zc You're right I corrected it. Thanks.
Did not happen at Aldis. Unless they had 140 quarters.
@user-wf8ol5hv6k
2 ай бұрын
Sure they could. They are already chained up together.😅
@blackwhirlwind1245
2 ай бұрын
140 quarters ain’t that hard😂 all you have to do is go to your bank and get some quarters.
Taking a shopping cart home is not understandable! That's theft!
@roachtoasties
3 ай бұрын
If they immediately bring it back.
@vision821k4
3 ай бұрын
the foreigners just bring them back to their apartments and leave them. they also throw trash in them its like they cant resist. USA is becoming a third world s**hole
@WithoutRemorse12
3 ай бұрын
Shopping bags will eventually rip. When you are trying to carry a load of them home.
@vision821k4
3 ай бұрын
@@WithoutRemorse12 f***k you foreigner, no cart leaves this premises. you want stronger bags? 4.99 in the corner. and you won't be returning them this time.
@Klm49
3 ай бұрын
I think he means people take them home with groceries and then bring them back.
Hey , As long as something has a value it will disappear...... The low life that roam the streets today are like never before....
@dicktracy5234
3 ай бұрын
Where do you sell shopping carts on the streets at ?
@Surprise_Inspection
3 ай бұрын
Hidden reply
@Zeevuhl
3 ай бұрын
@@Surprise_Inspection Sooo scary!
@will7its
3 ай бұрын
Lots more coming every day....lol
@jaydemo5792
3 ай бұрын
@@Zeevuhl 😝😝😝
77 year old stealing carts... that's his daily workout.. haha..
@morganjanelle4282
3 ай бұрын
@john_wick1 Lol 😂😂 Between _that,_ & trying to put his underwear on without losing his balance, he probably had quite a busy day.
@dilvastak7351
3 ай бұрын
This is not an everyday workout, but a vital necessity to eat and spend money on medicine.
Why are they not being ticketed or arrested for grand theft is it about 500 for each one! The police should make them return it to the store parking lot!
@tonysudano778
3 ай бұрын
$500 for a shopping cart is the real crime here
@blak3brutus229
3 ай бұрын
@@tonysudano778they use crazy strong metals and a lot of unnecessary safety mechanisms for stupid children.
Please stop stealing carts. Thankyou
@SuperMoss15
3 ай бұрын
@@PuffinSmurf Are you talking about Reginald Cousins?
@bluelava4282
3 ай бұрын
I need da money
@springsbliss4094
3 ай бұрын
@@bluelava4282 no you don't
@bluelava4282
3 ай бұрын
@@springsbliss4094 go fund me 💰
@sunflowing
3 ай бұрын
Well we'd have to fix the world first
I remember going to Walgreens a few years back, and there were no baskets. Counting myself, there were only 3 customers in the store, so I asked where all the baskets were. They said some guy came in there the night before and took the entire stack and ran out the door, leaving only 1 basket for the entire store. I still don't understand what the point was to steal a bunch of plastic Walgreens baskets...with idiots like this, soon they'll be making us pay to rent baskets/carts just so they're not stolen. It really is ridiculous & pathetic the behavior of these low lifes.
@darkespeon64
2 ай бұрын
Some stores like Aldis do require you to rent them out. But atm it's just a quarter
Never in my life have I thought of stealing a shopping cart. And then they stole 140 of them.
A shopping cart will buy you about 100 pounds of cat food!
@BrandMalone24
3 ай бұрын
I need that, BRB going to safeway
@ChiefBridgeFuser
3 ай бұрын
😂😂😂
How is it “alleged” when they’re caught red-handed???
I heard they were inspired by Bubbles from Trailer Park Boys.
@tothelighthouse9843
3 ай бұрын
We're all inspired by Bubbles from TPB.
@tylerrjohnson68
3 ай бұрын
Lmao@@tothelighthouse9843
Does the store offer a reward for "recovered" shopping carts? Some of our local stores used to give like a $50 reward for each cart.
@vicpetrishak7705
3 ай бұрын
Something tells me this reward would turn into a SCAM !
@solandri69
3 ай бұрын
Wouldn't that just result in people stealing a cart, returning it a few days later for the reward, rinse and repeat?
@rangerannie5636
3 ай бұрын
And that's why the stores USED TO OFFER that bounty! Now, they contract with a couple of independent contractors who drive around and collect the carts to return. Other stores have converted to carts that lock up if you try to push them off the property and/or plastic carts.
Even my local VA hospital has a huge problem with wheelchair thefts from those who borrow them visiting.
Wheeling a shopping cart home is understandable? Well, hell.
Cellmate : I'm in here for murder. What you in for? 54 yr old : I stole some shopping carts
Out here in the remote desert there's a fleabag motel alongside the main highway and every single time I drive past there's a distinctive cart from the Dollar General 1/4 mile away right on the edge of their property. Can't stand people who feel entitled to help themselves to things others use and need.
$200 for a used shopping cart? That's a ripoff. Come on down to Joel's Shopping Cart Emporium! We've got Walmart carts for $50, Kroger carts for $65 dollars, we've got a Whole Foods Mobility Cart for only $139. Financing available! And remember, "For a buggy that's state of the art, look no further than Joel's Shopping Carts!" Located in a van outside grocery stores everywhere. Cash only.
Shopping Cart Bandits: (stealing shopping carts) 🛒 Florida Man: "Are you challenging me?"
@canada0118
3 ай бұрын
This feels like one of those crimes that mean nothing, at least compared what's happening in chicago.
I'm originally from New Jersey and I remember back in the day when I used to go shopping at Shoprite, I remember the Shoprite carts used to be orange and I usually have to use a quarter to use their carts and you get the quarter back after using their carts. I think times changed.
Walmart's riding shopping carts disappear and I have bed knees and legs, don't steal carts folks need them.
@mrsleep0000
3 ай бұрын
Criminals don't care about you or what you need.
@HustleMuscleGhias
3 ай бұрын
By Cox Media Group National Content Desk April 09, 2019 at 3:07 pm PDT CROSSVILLE, Tenn. - A Tennessee woman is accused of leading police on a slow-speed chase after stealing an electric scooter from Walmart to get coffee at a Waffle House down the street. WKRN reported that investigators got a call about a woman driving an electric scooter in the slow lane of a highway in Crossville, Tennessee, around 5 a.m. Friday. According to WTVF, officials with the Cumberland County Sheriff's Department said Sally Selby, 45, told police she built the cart and someone ripped off the lights on it. She said she was driving the cart from Walmart to Waffle House to get a cup of coffee, according to police. Surveillance footage from Walmart showed Selby entering the store and shopping while riding the scooter, police said, according WKRN. Officers said she drove the scooter out of the store, around the parking lot and onto the highway. Police said they charged Selby with theft once she was pulled over, WTVF reported.
He said they have a good security team. He should have left the word “good” out. If they were good, this wouldn’t be on the news.
Similar to the sand in the wheelbarrow story. Police kept sifting through the sand for contraband, but they were stealing the wheelbarrows😊
When they say to think outside of the box, it wasn't referring to steal shopping carts. Come on guys, get it together lol.
how strange
usually my seniors are stealing batteries, good grief!
It's a big misunderstanding officer. We're going to perform a public service and fix the wheels.
The Meijer near me has electronic tracking. If it tries to leave the parking lot, wheels lock. It wouldn’t have completely stopped it, but it would have made it more difficult to steal.
It's a big deal a small shopping cart costs 174 bucks a full size cart 239 if it's plastic, 189 if it's metal. Having 2 people steal 140 is not chump change it over 26,460 if it's a full size metal cart with zero personalization like a store name that cost extra. Pretty sure you'd be upset if someone stole 26k from you.
Why? are they selling them to the homeless?
@raykane2063
3 ай бұрын
Nope for the Rich people that own the scrap metal company they pay pennies on the pound for metal. Most of the petty theft is really done by Rich Organized Crime rings. They only show the poor people that's doing the crimes.
@MissylovesTrouble
3 ай бұрын
Resell them to smaller stores or they can get money for them by scrapping them.
@cuscrapping
3 ай бұрын
@@MissylovesTrouble shopping carts are illegal to scrap without proper documentation from the store in all 50 states.
@justsayin5609
3 ай бұрын
As if....duh!
@rogerrosen2323
3 ай бұрын
@@cuscrapping must sell them then the stores wd be guilty they took too many
No they are called criminals/thieves.
This is why we cant have nice things
So many homeless have taken carts to carry their items; we see them all over the roads. But why these guys stole over 140 carts! Who buys shopping carts as some have the store logo on them. Shame on those other stores who are buying stolen shopping carts.
This is why people have to waste their time with quarter returns
Seriously? I used to live near a retail area and the number of carts abandoned in our neighborhood was ridiculous. One artistic neighbor even made a sculpture out of a bunch he found just driving around. Stores refused to come get them.
You just don't see that kind of work ethic in the youth today...
We have been having this happen where I live for years. The small Dollar Tree next door to me buys shopping carts all the time because at times they will be down to three or four carts. The manager there is the one who told me these carts cost $200.00 a piece and it's a big expense for stores to keep replacing them. So, because of people who feel they can take whatever they please like these two jerks, many customers have to go without a cart or the store must pay out more money to replace them. Because of low life sum bags, like these two, pretty soon there will be no brick and mortar stores left to shop at.
Everytime I went to a local park in the city there was always shopping cart in the pond for some odd reason.
Cory and Trevor are back at it again
CART them off to jail.
Bandits in jail: bro the bars remind me the shopping carts, only much... much bigger 💀💀💀
Nothing new where I live. I see shopping carts everywhere. People take them like they own them and the customers has to pay for them.
You need the Cart Narc.
@frauwolftherehorse
3 ай бұрын
❤
New Low-income housing musta been approved.
I love how the cop seemed like he was about 2 seconds from busting out laughing the whole time.
:26 most "Just shut up and let me do my job" face ever lol
Last thing to go is your strength when getting old.
This should be on a Beavis, & Butthead episode LOL
These carts are public domain Ricky!
Just arrest them and put them in jail for felony theft
Reminds me of the movie with George Burns. The older guys committing crimes.
@morganjanelle4282
3 ай бұрын
@arfriedman4577 "Going In Style", was the name of the movie, I think. I've never seen it, but I've heard of it.
My looking online and there's people that make art sculptures. And alot of them are unbelievable 😮 i told my wife when I first was hearing the news report.. most likely it's homeless people stealing them to put the stuff in. And the last time I heard shopping carts from supermarkets costs $500 to $800 each. So now I guess their made cheaper and cost $250 each
@askew9976
3 ай бұрын
They won’t get charged with grand theft though. Slap on the hand and business as usual.
Bubbles strikes again
@spiritanimal7516
3 ай бұрын
Cat food is expensive.
@drevil5546
3 ай бұрын
Freedom 55
@stanleygoering4856
3 ай бұрын
“Hand on the cart like this then…whoopsie, down she goes and then come pick her up later”!
A shopping cart is essential to life on the street. A good easy push is precious, also note they are zero emissions. Just a side note the automobile companies should offer a line of shopping carts at their dealerships, it would boost their low sales numbers.
I am not surprised people see are stealing shopping carts, and the Security team knew this was Was happening, the only reason There tell you the store is not profitable yet.
I wasn’t stealing carts, Gary. I was down here having a pee.
There is a major problem with shopping carts being taken from stores. I exercise-walk everyday and I always see shopping carts from different places abandoned on the sidewalks and also I see carts while I am driving. I live in Miami, Florida and among other places, I have seen carts from CVS, Walgreens, Navarro's, Publix, Winn Dixie, Fresco y Mas, Home Depot and so on. At my nearest CVS location, there are no longer hand-baskets for shopping. They have all disappeared
I’m sure the guys who go outside to collect carts noticed their job was getting easier over time and decided not to say anything.
And I thought I had it bad with pushing carts back in my day! Lol
People who do this are probably the reason I can never find any of the smaller carts at Walmart and have to take the big one instead when I'm only there to buy a few things. The amount of Walmart's smaller carts seems to be dwindling. Don't retailers consider shopping carts part of their assets and therefore "store property" or do they not care and just buy a new one for everyone stolen like it's no big deal.
inflation has gone through the roof if ppl gonna steal shopping carts to sell them 💀
At the Menards I worked at, 140 shopping carts would be about 90% of the store’s supply. There would only be a dozen left.
Bubbles, and Ricky at it again!!! (Trailer Park Boys TV show)
Same in Indianapolis if you go shop inside the circle you will find not small carts or baskets. The security guard told me they were all stolen on not being replaced. Mind boggling to me.
Ricky, Julian, and Bubbles have some competition.😂
Who would ever think of stealing shopping carts, my goodness, too old for something like this, times must be tough for both men.
@MPARNELL
3 ай бұрын
Usual suspects 💯
As an elderly disabled male ,at least that a whole lot more shopping carts that won't wind up in the handicapped parking spots because that's were everyone seems to put them. WERE HANDICAPPED PEOPLE..... we can't get out of the car, move the cart and than get back In the car to park it only to get out of the car again. It's a bit difficult when u have a disability. The store she keep an eye on their carts .if they were were they belong they wouldn't be disappearing
It’s the same scenario when people who live close by push shopping carts right into their neighborhood 🥱
@towringer
3 ай бұрын
Yep. I worked in a supermarket 40 years ago, and it was next to a senior apartment complex. Every early evening before sunset, I'd go into the community and round up at least 20 carts. Even today, seniors still take the shopping carts if they live nearby. For many, it's their 'walker' inside & outside the store.
I'm sooo sorry. 😢😢😢😊
my stomping ground growing up throughout the 80's until a couple months before 9/11 where I move away.. not too far from where I used to lived and grew up , I lived in Saddlebrook.. we used to buy our food in ShopRite there and later at bjs in Rutherford.. used to walk through the park my other stomping ground growing up all the way to the ShopRite and then to the mall pretty much on a daily basis Garden State Plaza .. something interesting about that ShopRite, it goes down like three floors under the basement.. I remember using the bathroom a few times there as a kid just to see it. Lots of conveyor belts, and stuff.
Rodriguez and Cortes, what would we ever do without this cultural enrichment?!
stop using the work allegedly when you catch them red handed
We had a convoy of shopping carts left along the side of the highway when they rousted the homeless.
UNFREAKINGBELIEVABLE
Just think, they were homeless before they began selling shopping carts. Now they live in an 8x8 cell.
No wonder why whenever I go out for grocery even if the pace is not crowded theres like no carts to use.
As a lifelong department Store Manager I can tell you a few stories about this stuff. A body shop owner would walk accross the street and get carts then load em up with trash and leave a few on the sidewalk until the city picked em up. Costing us carts and him free trash pick ups. When the neighbor had wheels that would lock their customers would load their junk into ours who didnt lock and walk away.
How are people checking out without a shopping cart? 😂
Seriously who's buying shopping carts for $200 a piece.. even businesses. That sounds insane
that’s how Bubbles earns a living. not even really stealing if you ask me. thief goes back in to the store and spends money on food and catfood and stuff
Grocery stores in some areas place wheel locks or tracking devices on their shopping cart. In order to cut down on thefts.
Our Local Walmart Doesn’t Give a Damn! The Homeless Constantly Remove Carts Off the Premises .. Someone Went Thru the Wooded Area Down From the Walmart and Pulled Out {37} Shopping Carts - Lined Them Up on the Grass Along the {4} Lane Street .. I Informed the Walmart MANAGER of the Amount and Location of the Carts … and FOUR DAYS LATER, They’re ALL Still on the Side of the Street in the Grass!
@DCell1961
3 ай бұрын
At that point the Wal Mart should be charged with littering. Their carts, they are aware of their location and yet they decide to let them remain where they are.
The *excellent security team* part is confusing
Have a talk with whoever is buying the stolen carts.
Atleast two dozen have been stolen from the grocery store I work at, no suspect has been found.