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<blockquote data-quote="Babagounj" data-source="post: 950689" data-attributes="member: 12952"><p>[h=1]GRIME WAVE[/h] It’s a dirty job: Police nationwide take on soaring Tide detergent theft.</p><p></p><p></p><p>One Tide taker in West St. Paul, Minn., made off with $25,000 in the product over 15 months before he was busted last year.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Tide has become a form of currency on the streets. The retail price is steadily high — roughly $10 to $20 a bottle — and it’s a staple in households across socioeconomic classes.</p><p>Tide can go for $5 to $10 a bottle on the black market, authorities say. Enterprising laundry soap peddlers even resell bottles to stores.</p><p>“These are criminals coming into the store to steal thousands of dollars of merchandise,” said Detective Harrison Sprague of the Prince George’s County, Md., Police Department, where Tide is known as “liquid gold” among officers.</p><p>He and other law enforcement officials across the country say Tide theft is connected to the drug trade. In fact, a recent drug sting turned up more Tide that cocaine.</p><p></p><p>“We sent in an informant to buy drugs. The dealer said, ‘I don’t have drugs, but I could sell you 15 bottles of Tide,’ ” Sprague told The Daily. “Upstairs in the drug dealer’s bedroom was about 14 bottles of Tide laundry soap. We think [users] are trading it for drugs.”</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Babagounj, post: 950689, member: 12952"] [h=1]GRIME WAVE[/h] It’s a dirty job: Police nationwide take on soaring Tide detergent theft. One Tide taker in West St. Paul, Minn., made off with $25,000 in the product over 15 months before he was busted last year. Tide has become a form of currency on the streets. The retail price is steadily high — roughly $10 to $20 a bottle — and it’s a staple in households across socioeconomic classes. Tide can go for $5 to $10 a bottle on the black market, authorities say. Enterprising laundry soap peddlers even resell bottles to stores. “These are criminals coming into the store to steal thousands of dollars of merchandise,” said Detective Harrison Sprague of the Prince George’s County, Md., Police Department, where Tide is known as “liquid gold” among officers. He and other law enforcement officials across the country say Tide theft is connected to the drug trade. In fact, a recent drug sting turned up more Tide that cocaine. “We sent in an informant to buy drugs. The dealer said, ‘I don’t have drugs, but I could sell you 15 bottles of Tide,’ ” Sprague told The Daily. “Upstairs in the drug dealer’s bedroom was about 14 bottles of Tide laundry soap. We think [users] are trading it for drugs.” [/QUOTE]
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