Video Store Crime Ring in Leominster // Rich Wants to Broadcast from Las Vegas - 5/18 (Hour 3)
Toucher & Hardy
Beasley Media Group
4.3 • 735 Ratings
🗓️ 18 May 2021
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
(00:00) Leominster Police say a video store owner is at the center of a retail crime ring, having more than 26 shoplifters stealing items from stores and allegedly buying them for cash, then selling them online. Callers weigh in with times they’ve done something illegal for their bosses.
(23:03) We circle back on the Bruins as they beat the Capitals 4-3 in overtime. Rich wants to broadcast from Vegas if the Bruins end up facing the Golden Knights in the NHL Playoffs. Fred does not.
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| 0:00.0 | B-Pod Studios |
| 0:03.0 | TV subscribe to 985. |
| 0:09.4 | Sports Hub over there is 617. |
| 0:12.2 | 77985. |
| 0:14.6 | All right, Rich, what's going on? |
| 0:15.8 | You know, I sometimes think that most people who get away with a high level of crime for a while, for the most part, |
| 0:22.2 | you think most of them are fairly smart. I mean, there's that whole saying that, you know, |
| 0:27.5 | when someone has a genius IQ, they could either go on to be a great leader or a super criminal. |
| 0:33.0 | In this case, this is one of those that I'm astounded went on as long as it did when you hear the layers |
| 0:39.9 | of idiocy that were involved in this crime ring this is local too this is a story that uh broke i think |
| 0:46.3 | the end of last week out of lemmonster and it had been going on for a while and now i'm obsessed with |
| 0:52.5 | this story because as you peel away the onion you go okay well that, well, that wasn't very smart. Oh, God, that wasn't very smart. Like, oh, my word, that wasn't very smart. How this lasted as long as it did. I have no idea. Let's take a listen. The shop in Lemonster sticks out in 2021, A video rental store. |
| 1:16.5 | Police say inside the owner, John DePlease, was selling more than videos, accused of stashing about 1,700 stolen items. |
| 1:19.4 | At his home in Lancaster, police say they found... |
| 1:21.9 | Stop, stop, stop, stop. |
| 1:22.9 | So they show the outside of this place. |
| 1:24.6 | It's called adopt a video, and it's in a strip mall and like in |
| 1:28.2 | the window are a bunch of used DVDs and VHS for sale. Not conspicuous at all. No, it's, I mean, |
| 1:37.6 | they're on every corner now. Considering there's a documentary called the last blockbuster that I think that like 5 billion people have watched. |
| 1:48.2 | Yeah. |
| 1:49.4 | Considering the woman who manages the last blockbuster in Oregon has been on, I mean, they listed, she's been on basically every show in media. |
| 1:59.1 | Yeah, it would be saying something. |
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