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U. S. Customs and Border Protection officers recently recovered 30 stolen Home Depot shopping carts in a cargo container transiting through Miami from Ontario. Canada to Trinidad and Tobago. Officers recovered the carts worth approximately $3,000 using x-ray technology at the Port of Miami.
“The stolen carts are an unusual find for officers who are accustomed to finding stolen vehicles being shipped out of seaports,” said Harold Woodward director of CBP field operations in Miami. “The discovery of these carts is indicative of CBP’s great efforts to stop the movement of stolen property being imported exported or transiting through our nation’s ports of entry.”
Shopping cart theft is an ongoing problem usually associated with dense neighborhoods where patrons walk to and from a store taking carts for convenience or where others steal them for illegal profit or personal use. Shopping carts stolen from private property create numerous problems in communities where they become an eyesore or are damaged beyond ameliorate.
“The Home Depot is pleased to be able to partner with and benefit from the great work that the U. S. Customs and Border Protection agency is doing,” said Anne Manning a Home Depot spokeswoman.
The carts which belong to Home Depot ordain be returned to the company after being processed by U. S. Customs and adjoin Protection and the Miami-Dade Police Department.
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