I planted four young dogwood trees along the edge of my property by the street. Someone came during the night and dug up and stole one, then came back a few weeks later and did the same thing, stealing a second one! I’d never in my life heard of someone stealing trees, but I didn’t replace them because I lost about $100 do to the thefts. Sad, because I was just trying to make my neighborhood look nicer.
The best time to plant a tree, is twenty years ago! I don't know who to attribute that saying to, but is has stuck in my head for years. Frankly because it is so true
Can you imagine the conversation the boyfriend is having with the other inmates: "What brought you back inside?" "Stealing plants" "Weed?" "Nope, just normal houseplants." ...
It's so sad to see people diving to these lows. To steal is so degrading. To involve your children in this crime is even worse. Hopefully, their arrests will teach them never to steal again! ??
and who pays for it the shoppers do . Friday I was shopping in my local lowes and a man passed right by us in the garden center with a lawnmower and weedeater and strolled right on out. it's infuriating that they get stuff and we pay fir it.
@@lorraineyanez4301 I work for Lowes in a rural area. You would be amazed at the empty packaging we find each day. And just the other day a man tried to walk out with a mechanic set even after conversing with me. He seen two of us at the exit doors dropped the merchandise and left the store at a pretty good speed. That's just one person we kept an eye on, while others made it out without being seen. Not only are shoppers paying the employees also in their pay.
YEP... AMAZING WHAT SOME FEEL IS OK... I am in need of a Caregiver... I met someone (53YO)... We agreed to HELP EACH OTHER... I would support HIM providing everything... Clothes... Food... A Home... A Cabin in Colorado... Pretty much anything he needs... HIS MOTHER... Has been using him... She made sure too tell Me... FIRST THING... "I am his PAYEE"... Then tried saying something like 2000 DOLLARS A MONTH IS WHAT CAREGIVERS RECIEVE... SHE IS TRYING TOO BAKER ACT HIM... Have him locked up... HE IS LEGALLY BLIND... SHE IS TELLING HIM TO ACT CRAZY... Thinking he will get more benefits... PEOPLE ARE ONLY ELIGIBLE FOR BENEFITS UP TOO THEIR WORK HISTORY... HE never worked... HAS MINIMUM BENIFITS... HAS NOTHING... HE TOLD ME HOW HE HAS A REALLY BIG TELEVISION... HE IS BLIND... LIKES MUSIC... DOES NOT HAVE EVEN HAVE A RADIO...
I think it's a joke that these police investigated plants missing ......for a year. Lol it really speaks to the police out there. Meanwhile Brett favre and his ridge Republican buddies who stole millions of dollars from welfare they get to walk around free nope no you're long investigation there. Lol
@@allalala9916 you should see how many politicians and pastors steal on a basis , stealing is only wrong when it's not a billionaire corporation stealing through economic loopholes
I work at a big box store and we're ripped off all the time it amazes me and angers me at the same time. Why people think that taking something that doesn't belong to them is OK. And a lot of times it isn't stealing to get drugs. They just want it so they take it.
I'm not excusing what they are doing but high rent's are a part of the problem. When the greedy landlord is squeezing you dry you turn to survival mode. A law should pass to force landlords to lower their rents. I have a friend who moved to a state where the rent's are actually affordable and there's less crime and less thief. I live in southern California where rent's are super expensive and car breakins and home invasions are extremely high and employers pay extremely low. Also stores are burglarized every day. Again I am not excusing their behavior but we have to take into consideration what is causing all of this in order to find a solution.
I think it's great....big box stores took away all the millions of small family stores all over America...and now enslaves us all to work for them for far less doing the same things our grandparents used to do for themselves. I hope everyone robs the big box stores until they fail and people can be free agyto make our own buisnesses locally to thrive again. Family stores, coffee shops, ice creameries, clothing stores, department stores, grocery stores were almost all owned and operated by American families locally....now they pay you crappy wages and treat you like a number to do what we used to do for ourselves. Quit getting mad because of theft at you slave master's slave worker camp.
@@winning3329 Thank you for your wisdom because so many people don't see the hypocrisy in themselves when it's poor people stealing. They want the book thrown at them and locked under the jail. No one has the same energy when theives on Wall Street and Pennsylvania Ave steal steal. Poor people steal to survive. Not everyone who is poor is on drugs.
I was thinking the same. The economy is crushing so many of us. My mom keeps saying it’s the “devil” I keep saying, it’s the recession. Ppl are going crazy, even the types of people we don’t normally expect….like blond Caucasian women. She def put her own twist on stealing tho!
@@anthonynicholson5523 Really??? It isn't right to steal from a big box store just like it isn't right to steal from a mom and pops store. And thank you very much 😊 I love my job. I never feel like I'm going into work. It just feels like another day out. Not many people can say that and I feel blessed that I can. Have a great day!!! I know I will.
The daughter should just get community service (something that she actually has to put work into and can be teachable) for a few hundred hours. She's 15 and knows right from wrong, or at least knew what she was doing was wrong. She needs to know that there are consequences to making bad decisions.
I agree, but you have to give her the benefit of the doubt. Maybe her mother told her she already payed for the goods and they just needed to drive to the gate and collect them.
@@Lucas_Tulic .... I was thinking that, as well. Who knows if the daughter was under the impression her Mom paid for the plants (?) I don't feel it's okay I don't feel it's going to really serve a good purpose for that young girl to be punished for something that her mother and the boyfriend of the mother were doing.... she could be just an innocent bystander . I've seen that , I've seen Parents try to use their kids as a " shield " when stuff goes down and it's totally unfair to the children because they were just the bystander.
@@lovethyneighbor1955 seems like you don't take your name seriously. Let's not forget that crime rates in Republican states are way higher than in Democrat run States.
What's crazy about this story is that I've seen several of these stores that leave their plants out front not water them and they all just die, I always think to myself what a waste 30 or 40 plants sitting out front and they're all dead, they waste more than what this woman stole. I'm not condoning what she did, especially involving her daughter.
So there's a reason for this. I don't think it's a good one, but it's there. Anyway, Albertsons (or any other big box plant retailer) doesn't technically own the plants until the purchase is made. So they're not responsible for taking care of them. I've noticed that stores with floral desks and attendants, the plants get a little more love, like Kroger and Publix. My Lowe's waters the plants but the houseplants always get drowned and you've got to get there right after a shipment if you don't want a rescue plant that's starting to rot.
@@fioregiallo ive seen a kid working in home depot literally pour gallons of water in one small plant. Seriously. A gallon... And i told him you didnt have to put that much water and he called me a fag.
Around 30 years ago in the grocery store I worked at , some customer was going down the bread aisle and squeezing every loaf of bread 2-3 times every week. . 🙄 😂We couldn't find out who it was . 🤔 It was hundreds and hundreds of dollars. We also had a regular customer coming in who would eat muffin tops off the muffins from the bakery , then leave the bottoms on the shelves down the aisles . I found them frequently. 💯😭
I knew a couple twenty years ago that stole all their landscaping from other people's homes / yards. They'd drive around after dark and get whatever they wanted. They had a beautiful yard and had no shame about it - until they got caught. I think it was the thrill of it because both had great high paying jobs.
WOW! They weren't kidding around stealing all these plants. You wonder where people get these ideas - I've seen plants outside stores and throwing them in my car never came to my mind. The world is becoming very sick. Throw the book at her.
The other kind of plant thief drives around a neighborhood and notes the yards and porches with a lot of nice plants. The thief comes back in the middle of the night and steals the plants and then sells them at a flea market OR is somebody's "landscaper" who has stolen the plants and they end up in somebody's yard. Rinse. Repeat.
I used to work at Home Depot 25 years ago while I was in grad school and this stuff happened all the time. It’s nothing new. It’s just that you see it on RUclips and such now 24/7.
“Oh, I’ll just help myself to these nice plants here. Surely, they put them here just for ME FOR FREE” WTF is wrong with people during the last couple of decades?
There is something going on in society, that is often times not reported. The theft of plants…potted plants. People steal them all the time, and a homeowner doesn’t report it to authority. You cannot leave nice potted plants in your front yard anymore, in most places
@@patrickdunn8918 I wasn't finished with my comment 😅😬. I specialize in propagating plants & they're all very sentimental to me. I would be so upset if my plans were stolen. I will remember to safeguard them with all my might 😳, thanks to your kind PSA.
Wow. I live in one of the toughest little cities in MIchigan and have never had a plant stolen from my house but it happens every time I put on on my Mom and Dads grave site out in the suburbs. lol
I agree with that. But, in this case, it sounds like this lady had refined her thievery down to seconds. It's hard as a bystander to know in that time frame whether or not she's stealing or loading up goods she paid for inside.
They need to All be put in jail, including the daughter. Stolen license plates too? More charges. Bye Felicias! Well the store manager is much smarter than corporate. I work for a store and corporate is just as stupid as Albertsons!
Yep - this happens all the time. I was a property manager for a commercial office building for several years. Every time we would plant Fall Mums or Summer’ Petunias, I’d loose dozens over night from people pulling them out of the ground within a day or two of them going into the large planting beds around the building. It’s unbelievable how low people will go!!!
There’s a neighborhood plant their in our area too, stealing from homes, not Albertsons. They found him selling the plants at a swap meet. Weird, but current & true.
Hurrah for Albuquerque's law enforcement team and their judicial system on this one. Where I am from, rarely do I know of probation being revoked. My judicial system allows for continued crimes, violating their probation over and over again, then dropping their violations charges, having firearms and you name it and when they do get tired of seeing the criminal he goes to jail with an apparent low bond to bail out with in sometimes only hours, so It must be a low bond because some I know of live in low income housing and how would there be money to bond out especially when it has become a revolving door for many of them in my town.
Perhaps because the dollar value of the stolen property made the thefts felonies. And the AG's office is in Albuquerque, where the crimes were charged. His office may have more resources to prosecute these cases.
The State’s attorney general is involved in all violations of state law…but it’s usually at the county level for actual prosecution. If you mean the federal AG, it would require violation of federal law. The only thing mentioned here that could possibly be federal would be the use of the internet to sell stolen goods.
I can’t help but notice the predictable contrast in comments, between a video with a white criminal, vs a black criminal. It shines a light on how prevalent racism still is. When it’s a white person, the comments are always focused on the individual, as they should be. When it’s a black person, the comments are usually overrun with generalizing, and hateful racist ignorance.
@@Pandabee11 leave it to people to take the joy out of everything. I m sure your aware of some theives stealing plants off of people's homes. Nothing is respected anymore.
Did she use them or sell them? I used to have an old neighbor who must have been a garden kleptomaniac: plants & even cheap garden decor. She grieved me by stealing (& subsequently killing) a plant I've had for more than a decade.
When I worked at a grocery store, a mother would bring her child in with her to shop and she had her child push the tiny child size cart full of items like she was shopping too. It was soooo cute until we realized she had taught her child to walk herself right outside to a waiting car with all the products she hadn't paid for! They finally busted the Mom but not before her daughter stole a significant amount of stuff.
I’ve never heard of this happening with plants but my dad owned a tree business and it’s common with trees The biggest theft he ever had was $30,000 in trees to where then on he told all of his clients to get insurance on their trees for reference this was in Texas
@@meltingspot1064 Multiple trees and the bigger ones there’s been people caught on video before with forklifts loading them in the back of peoples pick ups trees are expensive the bigger they are the more expensive they are when you plant trees you don’t expect them to be gone in the morning all of the trees that where stolen in his biggest theft they planted 67 trees none of them were over 6 feet tall and the people who took them loaded them up in pick ups and trailers The only thing they forgot to do is takeoff their landscaping logo so they were caught most commonly companies and corporate businesses which are who he mainly worked with sending his crews out to where brand new office buildings opening up and when they build those they put trees all over the place it’s cheaper for them to buy smaller trees in bulk plus smaller trees have a better chance of rooting better you very rarely see people move larger trees because they’re harder to move and keep alive once they’ve been re-planted
My friend planted the shrubs and turfed a Dairy Queen restaurant and over night they were stolen, he wrote this poem... The grass was green. The plants were small. The fucking bastards stole them all...!
@@wayneessar7489 I love that poem it reminds me of the movie fun with Dick and Jane when they steal grass from other neighbors lawns to put in their lawn to make one full lawn
What do these stores expect. you put merchandise out free to grab outside with no one watching. I see it at HOME DEPOT, LOWES all the hardware departments stores. Im surprised it doesnt happen more often.
How Flippin Embarrassing !! I'm LITERALLY a fellow Burqueño & I am astonished at the Levels these people are willing to go through too make a quick $$$ !! All While EVERY BUSINESS Has a LITERAL “NOW HIRING” sign hanging right OUTSIDE!! How Flippin Sad.. What The Hell Are THEY TEACHING their Kids?? Just Take What You Want & Make a Dollar !!! I had no idea Burque was Filled with such Donkeys !! Ugh... Mountains Here I Come !!
Look like career criminals that know nothing will happen to them...booked, released...back at it. I watched a 2hr standoff with state police trying to get the neighbor to come out so they could arrest him...he was booked and released...saw him walk by a day later...I just don't understand.
Reminds me of the nursery rhyme - Mary, Mary, quite contrary how does your green grow? With silver bells and cockle shells and stolen plants all in a row.
I bet plants were not the only thing she was stealing. It gets to be habit, and she will steal anything she can easily get her hands on, especially if she is reselling the stuff.
That mug shot wasn't very "lovely". Committing a crime is one thing, teaching your children to help commit crimes is quite another. I watched a mother with about five children come out of a dollar store, when they got to their van, before they get in, started pulling out everything they had stolen. Still makes me sick at my stomach to think about it. Sick world.
1:06 , the oh so honorable Chief Medina, look how excited he is to talk about a plant thief. He says, and I quote "I've seen my variety of strange cases over the years, this is going to be in the top tier of them." Good Lord, what a boring career he has had. No wonder these losers want the war on drugs to drag on forever despite so much evidence suggesting we should rethink our approach.
@@poollife777 it's no okay, I just used to work for Albertsons, I know how they are, half our plants went to waste, most stores would rather throw stuff away or let it waste before they give it away.
Those plants ARE very expensive. Steal and sell. I don't know why people are so confused about why she/her kid/boyfriend would do this. Drive up or walk away. How many times have you seen someone with a plant from in front of Albertson's walking to their car? Many. Who would know if they had paid? No one. A crime of "opportunity".
Apparently someone noticed, since they were arrested! Have you ever heard Of security cameras? They’re everywhere. Even when you don’t see it in plain view.
La gente está loca! O que??? Como es posible que vayan a una tienda y agarren las cosas como si se las merecen !! Robar es un delito y un pecado! NO ROBARÁS! ..Trabajen!! Gánese su dinero
Who the hell risks going to jail for plants!!!
@@codecaine LOL. Mmm. Not from Albertsons.
Her yard must look great 🙄
A DUMBY ,THAT'S WHO STEALS PLANTS.!!!
She's got to keep up with the HOA regulations.
Her
I planted four young dogwood trees along the edge of my property by the street. Someone came during the night and dug up and stole one, then came back a few weeks later and did the same thing, stealing a second one! I’d never in my life heard of someone stealing trees, but I didn’t replace them because I lost about $100 do to the thefts. Sad, because I was just trying to make my neighborhood look nicer.
@Sun 🔆 Shine 🔆 It would hurt the wildlife.
The best time to plant a tree, is twenty years ago! I don't know who to attribute that saying to, but is has stuck in my head for years. Frankly because it is so true
I’m sorry that you experienced that…that’s really messed up
That sucks.
Put an add out there and tell people to keep an eye out for someone planting those kinds of trees. I'd love to see someone bust them.
That woman just teaching her kid to be a bottom-feeding thief. Gross.
👍Yes it is
I wonder if she learned from her momma. How far back does it go?
I witnessed a mother teaching her child to steal at victory secret
I was a retail security guard for 2 years. I’d sometimes see “parents” concealing merchandise with their kids right there. Sometimes as young as 8.
I like the term bottom feeder. Must borrow
So sad, those plants deserved better.
Can you imagine the conversation the boyfriend is having with the other inmates:
"What brought you back inside?"
"Stealing plants"
"Weed?"
"Nope, just normal houseplants."
...
😂
plants are getting really expensive. no wonder she stole them.
😂😂
It's so sad to see people diving to these lows. To steal is so degrading. To involve your children in this crime is even worse. Hopefully, their arrests will teach them never to steal again! ??
Ah yes, that’ll teach them 😂
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and who pays for it the shoppers do . Friday I was shopping in my local lowes and a man passed right by us in the garden center with a lawnmower and weedeater and strolled right on out. it's infuriating that they get stuff and we pay fir it.
@@lorraineyanez4301 I work for Lowes in a rural area. You would be amazed at the empty packaging we find each day. And just the other day a man tried to walk out with a mechanic set even after conversing with me. He seen two of us at the exit doors dropped the merchandise and left the store at a pretty good speed. That's just one person we kept an eye on, while others made it out without being seen. Not only are shoppers paying the employees also in their pay.
This mother is what's wrong with our world.
YEP... AMAZING WHAT SOME FEEL IS OK... I am in need of a Caregiver... I met someone (53YO)... We agreed to HELP EACH OTHER... I would support HIM providing everything... Clothes... Food... A Home... A Cabin in Colorado... Pretty much anything he needs... HIS MOTHER... Has been using him... She made sure too tell Me... FIRST THING... "I am his PAYEE"... Then tried saying something like 2000 DOLLARS A MONTH IS WHAT CAREGIVERS RECIEVE... SHE IS TRYING TOO BAKER ACT HIM... Have him locked up... HE IS LEGALLY BLIND... SHE IS TELLING HIM TO ACT CRAZY... Thinking he will get more benefits... PEOPLE ARE ONLY ELIGIBLE FOR BENEFITS UP TOO THEIR WORK HISTORY... HE never worked... HAS MINIMUM BENIFITS... HAS NOTHING... HE TOLD ME HOW HE HAS A REALLY BIG TELEVISION... HE IS BLIND... LIKES MUSIC... DOES NOT HAVE EVEN HAVE A RADIO...
Who's going to water the plants while she's in jail?
🤪
I'm watering them right now. But the ones the cops took for evidence are goners guaranteed.
God
@@chriswolff3893 God's busy trying to clean the scum from Earth
@@scottadkisson440 They're his people. It shouldn't be that hard.
Stealing is stealing. Doesn't matter what it is. She needs to do some time in prison to clean herself up.
yeah cause that always works so well.
I think it's a joke that these police investigated plants missing ......for a year. Lol it really speaks to the police out there. Meanwhile Brett favre and his ridge Republican buddies who stole millions of dollars from welfare they get to walk around free nope no you're long investigation there. Lol
@@allalala9916 you should see how many politicians and pastors steal on a basis , stealing is only wrong when it's not a billionaire corporation stealing through economic loopholes
Keep those rats in prison!!
I work at a big box store and we're ripped off all the time it amazes me and angers me at the same time. Why people think that taking something that doesn't belong to them is OK. And a lot of times it isn't stealing to get drugs. They just want it so they take it.
I'm not excusing what they are doing but high rent's are a part of the problem.
When the greedy landlord is squeezing you dry you turn to survival mode.
A law should pass to force landlords to lower their rents.
I have a friend who moved to a state where the rent's are actually affordable and there's less crime and less thief.
I live in southern California where rent's are super expensive and car breakins and home invasions are extremely high and employers pay extremely low.
Also stores are burglarized every day.
Again I am not excusing their behavior but we have to take into consideration what is causing all of this in order to find a solution.
I think it's great....big box stores took away all the millions of small family stores all over America...and now enslaves us all to work for them for far less doing the same things our grandparents used to do for themselves. I hope everyone robs the big box stores until they fail and people can be free agyto make our own buisnesses locally to thrive again. Family stores, coffee shops, ice creameries, clothing stores, department stores, grocery stores were almost all owned and operated by American families locally....now they pay you crappy wages and treat you like a number to do what we used to do for ourselves. Quit getting mad because of theft at you slave master's slave worker camp.
@@winning3329 Thank you for your wisdom because so many people don't see the hypocrisy in themselves when it's poor people stealing. They want the book thrown at them and locked under the jail. No one has the same energy when theives on Wall Street and Pennsylvania Ave steal steal. Poor people steal to survive. Not everyone who is poor is on drugs.
I was thinking the same. The economy is crushing so many of us. My mom keeps saying it’s the “devil” I keep saying, it’s the recession. Ppl are going crazy, even the types of people we don’t normally expect….like blond Caucasian women. She def put her own twist on stealing tho!
@@anthonynicholson5523 Really??? It isn't right to steal from a big box store just like it isn't right to steal from a mom and pops store. And thank you very much 😊 I love my job. I never feel like I'm going into work. It just feels like another day out. Not many people can say that and I feel blessed that I can. Have a great day!!! I know I will.
The daughter should just get community service (something that she actually has to put work into and can be teachable) for a few hundred hours. She's 15 and knows right from wrong, or at least knew what she was doing was wrong. She needs to know that there are consequences to making bad decisions.
Put her to slave labor. Something Oregon is trying to end. Imagine that.
I agree, but you have to give her the benefit of the doubt. Maybe her mother told her she already payed for the goods and they just needed to drive to the gate and collect them.
Maybe she is embarrassed by her mother and the cringe felons she keeps around.
@@Lucas_Tulic .... I was thinking that, as well. Who knows if the daughter was under the impression her Mom paid for the plants (?) I don't feel it's okay I don't feel it's going to really serve a good purpose for that young girl to be punished for something that her mother and the boyfriend of the mother were doing.... she could be just an innocent bystander . I've seen that , I've seen Parents try to use their kids as a " shield " when stuff goes down and it's totally unfair to the children because they were just the bystander.
Make her do gardening .
And the judges will let her go.
NM a majority of the people are mental
Democrats... smh.
@@lovethyneighbor1955 seems like you don't take your name seriously. Let's not forget that crime rates in Republican states are way higher than in Democrat run States.
They only let you go if you murder or assault people.
Maybe she had jungle fever🧟
Here in Anchorage Alaska moose walk into the garden departments and eat the plants.
Lovely not so lovely
What's crazy about this story is that I've seen several of these stores that leave their plants out front not water them and they all just die, I always think to myself what a waste 30 or 40 plants sitting out front and they're all dead, they waste more than what this woman stole. I'm not condoning what she did, especially involving her daughter.
So there's a reason for this. I don't think it's a good one, but it's there. Anyway, Albertsons (or any other big box plant retailer) doesn't technically own the plants until the purchase is made. So they're not responsible for taking care of them. I've noticed that stores with floral desks and attendants, the plants get a little more love, like Kroger and Publix. My Lowe's waters the plants but the houseplants always get drowned and you've got to get there right after a shipment if you don't want a rescue plant that's starting to rot.
@@fioregiallo ive seen a kid working in home depot literally pour gallons of water in one small plant. Seriously. A gallon... And i told him you didnt have to put that much water and he called me a fag.
@@stevenhoang2671 ugh!!!!! I'm sorry. It's insane. Inches and inches of water just chilling. And they wanna be such jerks about it???? ಠ_ಠ
She didn’t get caught for a while so she thought she was good.
Like all thieves, they return to a rewarding situation until they're caught
@@carynmartin6053 I just find it so odd she stole something she would have to care for.
Around 30 years ago in the grocery store I worked at , some customer was going down the bread aisle and squeezing every loaf of bread 2-3 times every week. . 🙄 😂We couldn't find out who it was . 🤔 It was hundreds and hundreds of dollars. We also had a regular customer coming in who would eat muffin tops off the muffins from the bakery , then leave the bottoms on the shelves down the aisles . I found them frequently. 💯😭
The problem is, even had you caught them in the act, nothing would have been done to them.
That's just aweful!!! Wow!!!😑
thats so weird!
People are horrible
Lol the muffin top person watched too much Seinfeld
The nerve of people that teach their kids to be assholes is astounding.
Good to see that family time is still alive out there LOL
Why didn't she just take a piece of the plants and propagate her own?
Exactly
It would take a really long time to grow them big enough to sell for the kind of money she could sell those large arrangements for.
Do they look like they want to do work?
Tearing off pieces of plants is also stealing and property destruction.
Omg, you're giving her a lot of unearned credit!🤣
So, Albertson’s corporate needs an overhaul. Morons should listen to the people in the actual stores. 🙄 Shocking.
Im so sick of criminals.
stay strapped
Thank a DemoKKKrat.........
sharia law cutting hand is a personal favorite of mine
@@Lets_Go_Brandon2024 thank the Trump Party
@migel brain dead
I knew a couple twenty years ago that stole all their landscaping from other people's homes / yards. They'd drive around after dark and get whatever they wanted. They had a beautiful yard and had no shame about it - until they got caught. I think it was the thrill of it because both had great high paying jobs.
According to some people here, this type of stuff only began on January 10, 2021.
Wow that's incredible I think the worst part of the story is why would you drag your child into this moment of crime wow
WOW! They weren't kidding around stealing all these plants. You wonder where people get these ideas - I've seen plants outside stores and throwing them in my car never came to my mind. The world is becoming very sick. Throw the book at her.
The other kind of plant thief drives around a neighborhood and notes the yards and porches with a lot of nice plants. The thief comes back in the middle of the night and steals the plants and then sells them at a flea market OR is somebody's "landscaper" who has stolen the plants and they end up in somebody's yard. Rinse. Repeat.
I used to work at Home Depot 25 years ago while I was in grad school and this stuff happened all the time. It’s nothing new. It’s just that you see it on RUclips and such now 24/7.
“Oh, I’ll just help myself to these nice plants here. Surely, they put them here just for ME FOR FREE” WTF is wrong with people during the last couple of decades?
There is something going on in society, that is often times not reported. The theft of plants…potted plants. People steal them all the time, and a homeowner doesn’t report it to authority. You cannot leave nice potted plants in your front yard anymore, in most places
I had no idea though I have been curious, so thank you for informing me because I am a container pot gardener.
@@f0ll0wingmyheart I have a lot in pots, but a lot in the ground too. I’ve had a bunch stolen 😃
@@patrickdunn8918 Wow, that's so wrong 😳. I feel your pain.
@@patrickdunn8918 I wasn't finished with my comment 😅😬. I specialize in propagating plants & they're all very sentimental to me. I would be so upset if my plans were stolen. I will remember to safeguard them with all my might 😳, thanks to your kind PSA.
Wow. I live in one of the toughest little cities in MIchigan and have never had a plant stolen from my house but it happens every time I put on on my Mom and Dads grave site out in the suburbs. lol
And the people who buy the stuff that was obviously stolen from store are just as bad as the thieves.
stealing pot plants?
omg, lock her up!
😂🤣😂🤣ikr? Hilarious.
We pay for the stores losses. If you see something say something.
Most say we don't want to get involved.
I agree with that. But, in this case, it sounds like this lady had refined her thievery down to seconds. It's hard as a bystander to know in that time frame whether or not she's stealing or loading up goods she paid for inside.
They stole to support their drug habit. How could they not know they would be caught. They had to be on drugs to be so stupidly daring.
To do that is wrong, but to bring your kid with you!?
They need to All be put in jail, including the daughter. Stolen license plates too? More charges. Bye Felicias! Well the store manager is much smarter than corporate. I work for a store and corporate is just as stupid as Albertsons!
Yep - this happens all the time.
I was a property manager for a commercial office building for several years. Every time we would plant Fall Mums or Summer’ Petunias, I’d loose dozens over night from people pulling them out of the ground within a day or two of them going into the large planting beds around the building.
It’s unbelievable how low people will go!!!
And I bet you would say it was the blacks haha 😆 and you were getting robbed by Karen the whole time
Lose, not loose.
@@duanehorton4680
You’re absolutely right! Thanks for the correction - I didn’t notice that. 🙂
There’s a neighborhood plant their in our area too, stealing from homes, not Albertsons. They found him selling the plants at a swap meet. Weird, but current & true.
Hurrah for Albuquerque's law enforcement team and their judicial system on this one. Where I am from, rarely do I know of probation being revoked. My judicial system allows for continued crimes, violating their probation over and over again, then dropping their violations charges, having firearms and you name it and when they do get tired of seeing the criminal he goes to jail with an apparent low bond to bail out with in sometimes only hours, so It must be a low bond because some I know of live in low income housing and how would there be money to bond out especially when it has become a revolving door for many of them in my town.
Brazen sense of entitlement..Sickening.
Is there a hot market for stolen plants in Albuquerque??? Wtf lol
Garden won’t be denied ✊
Good catch by Albertsons and APD, yet why is the Attorney General's office getting involved in these types of local crimes?
Perhaps because the dollar value of the stolen property made the thefts felonies. And the AG's office is in Albuquerque, where the crimes were charged. His office may have more resources to prosecute these cases.
It’s the State AG office, not federal
@Crystal Ray The amount has nothing to do with the jurisdiction. How embarrassing for you.
The State’s attorney general is involved in all violations of state law…but it’s usually at the county level for actual prosecution.
If you mean the federal AG, it would require violation of federal law. The only thing mentioned here that could possibly be federal would be the use of the internet to sell stolen goods.
Great humans !!! Are they CITIZENS of the United States ?
🇺🇲MAGA🇺🇲
Ok she is going to go on with her life. No jail time at all. Black people steal a loaf of bread 20 years sentence.
I can’t help but notice the predictable contrast in comments, between a video with a white criminal, vs a black criminal. It shines a light on how prevalent racism still is. When it’s a white person, the comments are always focused on the individual, as they should be. When it’s a black person, the comments are usually overrun with generalizing, and hateful racist ignorance.
It’s not the value. It’s still taking something that isn’t yours. Playing the race card is just lame.
I guess they caught her green handed.
😂 Dumb. Love it.
Finally …a happy story…about flowers…I feel better..
and it drives up costs for actual customers. if they are going to steal then they should be banned from stores.
Yes. It is great to see that police made this case! Unchecked theft is something that must stop.
Hey corporate… what are you doing?
As a plant addict… I get it. Lol
I assure you she doesn't love the plants she's just a theive.
But you normally pinch off a stem and dip it in root hormone. Not run off with the whole plant!
@@Pandabee11 leave it to people to take the joy out of everything. I m sure your aware of some theives stealing plants off of people's homes. Nothing is respected anymore.
What a good example for a mother..why do people think they are so privileged. 🤷♀️
Did she use them or sell them? I used to have an old neighbor who must have been a garden kleptomaniac: plants & even cheap garden decor. She grieved me by stealing (& subsequently killing) a plant I've had for more than a decade.
If you're a THIEVING POS,then you should be locked up,right????
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The report said she sold them for thousands of dollars.
Did u confront her??
If you listened to the words you’d know the answer.
and blacks dont get arrested at all for high dollar smash and grabs
Not strange. Potted plants are the in thing. 1 plant can cost up to $200.
Siam ruby banana 350$ on eBay…I could’ve sold so many!
When I worked at a grocery store, a mother would bring her child in with her to shop and she had her child push the tiny child size cart full of items like she was shopping too. It was soooo cute until we realized she had taught her child to walk herself right outside to a waiting car with all the products she hadn't paid for! They finally busted the Mom but not before her daughter stole a significant amount of stuff.
Apparently they think it's cute for a child to steal, so they're teaching them how to be a criminal
😲 That's just messed up. What an awful parent!
Isn't that cute. Lol
Mother of the freaking year.
So glad they were caught!
I’ve never heard of this happening with plants but my dad owned a tree business and it’s common with trees The biggest theft he ever had was $30,000 in trees to where then on he told all of his clients to get insurance on their trees for reference this was in Texas
How do you steal a huge tree?
@@meltingspot1064 Multiple trees and the bigger ones there’s been people caught on video before with forklifts loading them in the back of peoples pick ups trees are expensive the bigger they are the more expensive they are when you plant trees you don’t expect them to be gone in the morning all of the trees that where stolen in his biggest theft they planted 67 trees none of them were over 6 feet tall and the people who took them loaded them up in pick ups and trailers The only thing they forgot to do is takeoff their landscaping logo so they were caught most commonly companies and corporate businesses which are who he mainly worked with sending his crews out to where brand new office buildings opening up and when they build those they put trees all over the place it’s cheaper for them to buy smaller trees in bulk plus smaller trees have a better chance of rooting better you very rarely see people move larger trees because they’re harder to move and keep alive once they’ve been re-planted
My friend planted the shrubs and turfed a Dairy Queen restaurant and over night they were stolen, he wrote this poem...
The grass was green.
The plants were small.
The fucking bastards stole them all...!
@@wayneessar7489 I love that poem it reminds me of the movie fun with Dick and Jane when they steal grass from other neighbors lawns to put in their lawn to make one full lawn
What do these stores expect. you put merchandise out free to grab outside with no one watching. I see it at HOME DEPOT, LOWES all the hardware departments stores. Im surprised it doesnt happen more often.
Well at least she's spending time with her daughter.
Lovely..........thats super gross
Check the Swapmeets alot of plants sold there
Another beauty 👍
How Flippin Embarrassing !! I'm LITERALLY a fellow Burqueño & I am astonished at the Levels these people are willing to go through too make a quick $$$ !! All While EVERY BUSINESS Has a LITERAL “NOW HIRING” sign hanging right OUTSIDE!! How Flippin Sad.. What The Hell Are THEY TEACHING their Kids?? Just Take What You Want & Make a Dollar !!! I had no idea Burque was Filled with such Donkeys !! Ugh... Mountains Here I Come !!
Please don't insult donkeys! Donkeys are better than these "people".
Polk Salad Annie... The gator's got you Granny
People used to be crucified for being thieves but now look at them. There's no fear before their eyes because the want of true justice.
Just plain crazy. Sounds like some real nice people.
Hopefully she'll turn over a new leaf
She brought her CHILD into it? What is wrong with people!?!?
What a pair of winners! To steal from a company and then think nothing of it. Some people have no morals.
The cops planted the evidence on her. She should branch out and get multiple lawyers. Tree or four lawyers should be enough. Gardenteed to get off.
I see what you did there!😅😅
She needs to see a psych to get to the root of her problems.
🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣
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Sir u deserve jail as much as her
I want to see a picture of her garden
Stealing 🪴 ! 😆
Classy. Her entitlement is showing.
I’m addicted to plants but not that much to steal or sell anything stolen.
Look like career criminals that know nothing will happen to them...booked, released...back at it. I watched a 2hr standoff with state police trying to get the neighbor to come out so they could arrest him...he was booked and released...saw him walk by a day later...I just don't understand.
Thieves! Don’t care if it was plants or diamonds, these people should rot in jail.
I feel bad for the daughter.
Reminds me of the nursery rhyme - Mary, Mary, quite contrary how does your green grow? With silver bells and cockle shells and stolen plants all in a row.
I bet plants were not the only thing she was stealing. It gets to be habit, and she will steal anything she can easily get her hands on, especially if she is reselling the stuff.
*Border Jumpers will be Border Jumpers*
We live in the land of loserville...
That mug shot wasn't very "lovely".
Committing a crime is one thing, teaching your children to help commit crimes is quite another. I watched a mother with about five children come out of a dollar store, when they got to their van, before they get in, started pulling out everything they had stolen. Still makes me sick at my stomach to think about it. Sick world.
20 times?!? Geez I have a hard time going back to a store for a few months 😂😂😂
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1:06 , the oh so honorable Chief Medina, look how excited he is to talk about a plant thief. He says, and I quote "I've seen my variety of strange cases over the years, this is going to be in the top tier of them." Good Lord, what a boring career he has had. No wonder these losers want the war on drugs to drag on forever despite so much evidence suggesting we should rethink our approach.
He’s just lucky that he doesn’t work in Florida!
They need to through thieves in jail. That stole….
It should be illegal to be stupid.
steals all those plants but looks like she avoids salads at all costs.
😂😂😂
Yeah Lovely is NOT Lovely.
Ahhhhh ....America's finest ...the patriots ...they never look suspicious
(meanwhile in prison)
What are you in for?
Stole 8k worth of plants.
marijuana nice.
no potted plants.
Lol
Let’s stop the BS... and make an example out of these scum bags . Put them in jail for 10 years... pretty simple
I want to see her garden.
PROBABLY NASTY
Probably not ! 😝
She was not taking them to her garden. It’s just that these were the easiest items for her to steal and sell
@@justelleleigh ah, yah I didn't actually watch the video.
How about just taking a clipping and just grow your own?
Yup, that's what I'd do.
Half those plants would've been wasted anyways.
@@poollife777 it's no okay, I just used to work for Albertsons, I know how they are, half our plants went to waste, most stores would rather throw stuff away or let it waste before they give it away.
Usual suspects
Tweakers gone wild
My goodness! How much are potted plants/flowers? Are they THAT expensive?
...yes. . .some plants are expensive. . .as in really expensive. . due to rarity, difficult to propagate, less supply etc. . .
Those plants ARE very expensive. Steal and sell. I don't know why people are so confused about why she/her kid/boyfriend would do this. Drive up or walk away. How many times have you seen someone with a plant from in front of Albertson's walking to their car? Many. Who would know if they had paid? No one. A crime of "opportunity".
At Walmart, there were employees watching the garden center, and sometimes the display areas near the front entries.
Apparently someone noticed, since they were arrested! Have you ever heard Of security cameras? They’re everywhere. Even when you don’t see it in plain view.
La gente está loca! O que??? Como es posible que vayan a una tienda y agarren las cosas como si se las merecen !! Robar es un delito y un pecado! NO ROBARÁS! ..Trabajen!! Gánese su dinero
stealing Pot plants, no potted plants 🤦🏻♂️ 😂🤣
I'm not surprised I live in albuquerque if it's not chained down its fair game. Terrible