It’s been an up-and-down week for metro area thieves.
On the downside, some soda pop peddlers were arrested after their black market Dr. Pepper syrup criminal enterprise was busted by police.
In case you missed it, a guy named Jimmy Robinson III was stealing sticky pallets of syrup from the local Dr. Pepper bottling company and delivering them to Doc Nguyen – the owner of CM Food Mart near 10th and MacArthur.