Supply: YouTube / CBS Information/Cook dinner County Sheriff’s Workplace
Whereas the sneaker resale market is certainly not what it was once, fools out listed below are nonetheless taking penitentiary possibilities to bag and transfer footwear merchandise in 2025. Living proof, authorities have simply pinched one other future felon who had sufficient kicks to make him a millionaire.
In accordance with CBS Information, authorities in Chicago busted 26-year-old Erick Lujano Bautista earlier this week after police found he was hiding nearly $1 million price of stolen sneakers in a warehouse on the West Facet of Chiraq. Nonetheless, even with all these sneakers stashed in his hideout, Bautista has been hit with one felony rely of theft. In the meantime the sitting “President” has 34 felony counts on his document…however that’s neither right here nor there.
Apparently, police have been tipped to Bautista’s unlawful operation and took motion, which led to the huge discovery and the remaining is historical past.
CBS Information reviews:
Cook dinner County Sheriff’s officers mentioned investigators executed a search warrant at a warehouse Lujano Bautista was subleasing within the 1500 block of South Western Avenue on Friday, after studying a lot of stolen sneakers have been being saved there.
Police discovered 1000’s of Nike and New Stability model sneakers believed to have been stolen contained in the warehouse investigators decided Lujano Bautista was not a licensed vendor of both Nike or New Stability model sneakers.
This was not the primary time Lujano Bautista was tied to such a theft ring. He was arrested in one other high-end theft ring in Lyons again in 2023.
Bautista appeared in courtroom Sunday (Feb. 2) over the bust and although he was allowed to go house to await trial, he did have at hand over his passport and report back to a probation officer till his trial date.
With the way in which issues are going out right here the person may get deported earlier than that point comes, because the Trump administration is even rounding up Americans in the event that they’re a shade too darkish for its consolation. Simply sayin’.
The bust comes as police in Chicago have begun utilizing the brand new Auror system, which alerts police of sure offenders in a number of jurisdictions.
“It is going to actually assist, for instance, somebody in DeKalb who says: ‘Wait a second, we simply picked up somebody who suits the MO of somebody who’s committing against the law in Belvidere, and somebody who did the identical factor in Naperville. Perhaps there’s a connection,’” Karr mentioned.
The Auror system simply went into use in Illinois.
“It’s actually been profitable in different states,” Karr mentioned. “We’d count on it to achieve success right here.”
Huge brother finished bought a brand new method of maintaining their ever-growing eye on us. Y’all been warned.