Dumb Criminals: Brooklyn Theif "Diaper Don" Caught After Scamming Stores For Thousands

[Initech]

Holy crap!

A 24-year-old Brooklyn man is accused of toddling off with thousands of dollars worth of diapers from area grocery stores, officials said Friday.

Kevin Hargrove was arrested for the dirty deeds at his Bushwick home Thursday, cops said.

He is accused of swapping the price codes on diapers inside Stop & Shop supermarkets on Long Island with tags from 99-cent items and then using the self-checkout.

He most often substituted the tag from a disposable pie plate, officials said.

“If I had to guess I’ve hit every Stop & Shop in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut,” an apparently unremorseful Hargrove told cops, according to court papers. “I’ve been doing this so long I can’t remember.”

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/man-allegedly-stole-thousands-dollars-worth-diapers-article-1.2189002

First line of that article says it all!

[Warren DeMontague]

1. but... why diapers?

If he was in the business of turning the stuff over for a profit (one assumes) wouldn't there be a higher margin, more desirable, less bulky thing he could swap the prices on?

Or, at the very least, you'd think he would randomize his pattern a bit to throw off any suspicious store management.

Seems a rather odd way to go about it.

[muriel_volestrangler]

2. Packages costing up to $99?

(god knows how big that is ...) That's a good markup.

and it's a commodity that is easily resellable (no-one would worry about someone having excess diapers - your baby grew out of them after you bought in bulk, or something), and he needed some for his own baby. And no-one wonders in a store about a guy buying a load of diapers and nothing else.

[Warren DeMontague]

3. Good points.

Now, I know there are a bunch of David Vitter jokes waiting, in here, but I'm too pooped to go looking for them.

So to speak.