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Law enforcement officials across the country are puzzled over a crime wave targeting an unlikely item: Tide laundry detergent.
These are criminals coming into the store to steal thousands of dollars of merchandise, said Detective Harrison Sprague of the Prince Georges 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 dont have drugs, but I could sell you 15 bottles of Tide, Sprague told The Daily. Upstairs in the drug dealers bedroom was about 14 bottles of Tide laundry soap. We think [users] are trading it for drugs.
Officials at Tide are trying to keep their hands clean.
We dont have any insight as to why the phenomenon is happening, but it is certainly unfortunate, said Sarah Pasquinucci, a spokeswoman for Procter & Gamble.