Police in Laconia, New Hampshire, arrested three people for stealing more than $7,500 worth of retail.
According to police, officers pulled over a motor vehicle for a minor violation on Tuesday night where they found the driver, Arturo Fabian Pineda-Otero, from Flushing, New York, operating the vehicle with a suspended license.
His passengers Roger Bustos-Perez, from Elmhurst, New York, and Hernan Avendano-Martinez, from Queens, New York, also did not have licenses.
They arrested Pineda-Otero and searched his person where they found several bags filled with what appeared to be marijuana.
The vehicle was searched once it was taken from the scene and a bag was located under the front passenger's seat covered in duct tape and aluminum foil.
The bag was covered in order to shield manufacturing retail security devices.
After officers obtained a search warrant for the entire vehicle, they located several other bags in the trunk of the car filled with retail clothing, cologne, and perfume.
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Officers also found tools that appeared to be used to detach anti-theft devices.
The total value of the stolen merchandise was over $7,500.
All three were arrested and charged with organized retail crime enterprise and Pineda-Otero was also charged with possession of a controlled drug and possession of a theft detection shielding device.
Later it was determined Roger Bustos-Perez had an ankle bracelet but due to a language barrier, could not explain why.
Laconia Police with the help of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency later learned Bustos-Perez and Avendano-Martinez were in the country illegally from Columbia.
All three suspects refused bail and are being held at the Belknap County Jail.
They will be arraigned on Wednesday.
