Posted on 09/26/2013 7:32:07 PM PDT by rey
SACRAMENTO — California authorities have arrested five people who allegedly bought bottles and cans from recycling centers in Nevada and then redeemed them for cash in California, the California Department of Justice said Thursday.
The suspects were charged with conspiracy, grand theft and recycling fraud as part of the scheme valued at more than $300,000, officials said.
The five arrested — Gerardo Gomez-Vasquez, Magdalena Hernandez-Sebastian, Luis Aguirre-Alacon, Ludin Rosales-Valladares and Elfego Gonzalez-Ramos — are Nevada residents. Authorities say a sixth man, Argelio Hernandez-Torres, remains at large.
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I pay a five cent deposit on cans and bottles ... I get whatever the current scrap by weight price is, and it never comes anywhere near five cents.
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That is undoubtedly FRAUD with a capital F , “deposit” has a specific meaning ... IT’S CLASS ACTION TIME.
No. It is a long standing custom in Spanish speaking countries to have 2 last names for official documents, while they use only one of the last names in casual social interaction. Since the arrest is official the full names were used.
Wasn’t there a Seinfeld episode where Newman loaded up the postal truck one night with bottles from NY City and attempted to drive to Michigan...where he’d make more than in NY?
California, listen: “mess with the market, the market messes with you.”
From a response on the article page:
Yes, there is a CA law against bringing cans not sold in CA into CA and redeeming them. This is the kind of stupidity you get when your govt must control every aspect of your life, for your own good of course.
What a country! I suspect that such an opportunity (not to mention the law against it) could only be make sense in the bizarro world of socialist economics. A free market system would most likely preclude such an attempt.
It certainly seems like it should be reasonable to redeem such recyclable garbage across state lines. In fact, I'm sure thousands of Americans commit this very crime inadvertently, many times each year. It's pretty easy to see how a person could purchase an item in one state and accidentally redeem it in another.
That's probably because they forgot to figure in the "free" use of Neuman's mail truck, remember???
collecting bottles was about the only way I ever have money when I was little...every year I figured I needed about $3 to buy a pair of sunglasses(white),a new blowup raft, and maybe a hat of some kind for vacation.....those were the days...
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