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Antonio Brown wants to leave Pittsburg after not going to the playoffs for the first year in his career

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The Steelers have backed themselves into a no-win situation. Again.

Antonio Brown reportedly wants out of Pittsburgh (according to Jason La Canfora of CBS Sports) after getting deactivated in the season finale due to the kind of misbehavior that would get him kicked off a junior high team. (While coach Mike Tomlin initially said last week that Brown's knee was feeling too uncomfortable to practice, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported that Brown expected to play Sunday.) The Steelers presumably want him out of Pittsburgh, too, due to a lengthening list of similar infractions.

Mike Tomlin refused to speculate about a trade in his end-of-season press conference on Wednesday, though he did describe a dysfunctional sequence of events involving missed walkthroughs and missed MRIs, which revealed as much about Brown's disregard for Tomlin's authority as Tomlin's inability to exert any.

However you assign blame-and there are so many fingers getting pointed in Pittsburgh these days that someone is going to poke an eye out-Brown has become a clubhouse toxin. But cutting or trading him would eat up more than $20 million in cap space due to prorated bonus money from his 2017 contract extension.

Antonio Brown: can't live with him, can't afford to live without him.

If this predicament sounds familiar, it's because the Steelers painted themselves into a similar corner with Le'Veon Bell this season. The notes are a little different, but the melody is the same: outstanding player, lingering bad feelings, an absence when the team needed him. Money and opportunities squandered.

The Steelers used to be one of the best organizations in the NFL just a few years ago. Now they are the just the best organization in the league at locking themselves out of their own house in their pajamas. And they must allow themselves to get even worse to have any hope of ever getting better.

The Steelers must trade Brown. They will eat a heaping slab of cap space, they won't get market value (everyone knows they are motivated sellers), and the 2019 Steelers without Brown will look a lot like the Week 17 Steelers: barely good enough to beat the Bengals backups.

But the Steelers are kidding themselves if they think patching up their current roster dynamic for fiscal reasons will result in anything but more bad feelings and disappointing results.

The Steelers' biggest problem right now is not Antonio Brown, just as it wasn't Bell at the start of the season. Their biggest problem is that they keep turning superstars into Browns and Bells. And the folks most responsible for this recurring problem are much harder to replace than one temperamental receiver.

"I foster and develop every aspect of our culture," Tomlin said Wednesday. "That's leadership." Actually, it sounds more like self-incrimination: Tomlin represents another no-win situation for the Steelers.

Tomlin's substitute-gym-teacher approach to managing the team's boldest personalities helped toxify the Bell situation (teammates felt free to rip the absent running back-and rip through his stuff), gave Roethlisberger license to become a combination quarterback/ talk radio troll and transformed Brown into someone who makes Odell Beckham Jr. look like St. Francis of Assisi.

Firing Tomlin might have been an appealing option before a quarter of the league fired their coaches, creating a shortage of appealing replacement candidates. And any potential replacement would end up playing "bad cop" to Tomlin's "barely paying attention" cop: Like trading Brown, switching coaches would cause a lot of short-term pain.

In the past, offensive coordinator Todd Haley kept Bell, Brown, Roethlisberger and others united against him by being a pain in the butt to everyone and anyone. Tomlin intimated that a staff shake-up is possible, and he should be obliged to bring in a fresh pair of coordinators: someone with real authority on offense instead of an in-house yes-man, someone whose scheme wasn't figured out three years ago instead of Keith Butler on defense.

Maybe Tomlin rediscovers tough love after letting the locker room devolve into a game of high-stakes dodgeball this season. Or maybe he ends up hiring his replacement. One way or the other, the Steelers culture must change before the next apple sours the way Brown and Bell did.

That culture change must extend to the front office.

The Steelers' methodical contract-management philosophy served the team well in the past: They avoided hasty, expensive extensions and free-agent splurges while maintaining playoff-caliber continuity since the dawn of the salary-cap era 25 years ago.

But the Steelers' tough negotiation tactics kept them tight against the cap while rankling big-name stars. Brown began angling for a contract extension in 2015 but did not get one until 2017. Franchise-tagging Bell backfired on everyone. And if this season taught us anything about the Steelers, it's that everyone in the locker room is acutely aware of how much money everyone else makes.

Top players don't like being told they have to wait until late in their contract cycles for extensions due to the team's accounting protocols. With key aging veterans (including linemen Maurkice Pouncey and Marcus Gilbert) and budding superstars (JuJu Smith-Schuster and T.J. Watt) in line for new contracts over the next few years, general manager Kevin Colbert and the front office will have to make some unpopular decisions about who gets fed-and who might get fed up if they are told to wait.

Speaking of aging veterans coming close to contract extensions, Roethlisberger is entering the last season of his contract.

With his "we have a bunch of No. 1 receivers [including Brown]," "I have earned the right to criticize" and hey, let's keep blaming Bell soundbites over the last few months, it doesn't take too much imagination to see that Roethlisberger is the gravitational center around which most of the Steelers drama revolves. But as a high-level franchise quarterback, he has diplomatic immunity: It doesn't matter how much blame is placed on him, because there's no reasonable mechanism for getting rid of him.

Roethlisberger, in other words, is yet another Steelers no-win situation. He's just the same one many teams find themselves in as their quarterbacks get older. (See: Packers, Giants, etc.)

The best thing the Steelers can do with Roethlisberger is strive to keep his future contract extension modest and team friendly, find a coach or coordinator to act as his personality lightning rod/boiling chip, hope he reacts well to the roster being built around him and (quietly) determine whether Mason Rudolph, Joshua Dobbs or Prospect to Be Drafted Later can be groomed into an alternative.

The worst thing the Steelers can do is sign Big Ben and other 30-somethings to mammoth deals, tell the youngsters to wait their turns and watch themselves fade further into expensive, disgruntled irrelevance.

The wake of the Brown situation and the Steelers' elimination from the playoffs has been as distressing as the situation itself. Roethlisberger is downplaying any rift and scapegoating Bell. Tomlin sounded like he was trying to convince himself that he was still in control on Wednesday. Brown and James Harrison are threatening a tell-all video that would melt both Instagram and Western Pennsylvania. The organization sounds more interested in talking about the need for change than changing.

The seeds of December's collapse have been sown for years. Too many superstars got to do whatever they wanted (except get paid when they wanted) for too long. Practices were too lax, the locker room a little too loose, game plans on both sides of the ball a little too leaky. Brown's eruption was a symptom of a long-gestating illness.

Trading Brown will hurt, but it will signal that the Steelers are willing to do what's necessary to heal.

Sometimes, the only way out of a no-win situation is to lose. That time has come for the Steelers. The sooner they start to cut their losses, the better.
Mike Tanier covers the NFL for Bleacher Report. Follow him on Twitter: @MikeTanier.

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The Steelers have backed themselves into a no-win situation. Again. Antonio Brown reportedly wants out of Pittsburgh (according to Jason La Canfora of CBS Sports) after getting deactivated in the season finale due to the kind of misbehavior that would get him kicked off a junior high team.

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Four thieves in Florida were arrested after stealing half a million dollars’ worth of tequila.

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Someone must've been planning a party...

Four thieves in Florida were arrested after stealing half a million dollars' worth of tequila.

Around 11 p.m. Sunday night, a truck driver pulling a trailer containing $507,105 worth of Patrón stopped at the Tampa Truck Stop in Hillsborough County to eat dinner.
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About an hour later, he discovered the entire trailer was missing, with only his truck cab parked in the lot.

Authorities searched the area and found the trailer about 11 miles away around 12:30 a.m., where the four suspects were transferring the alcohol into a box truck.

"We do know it was organized, and this had been planned because the box truck was there to meet them," Danny Alvarez, a spokesperson for Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office, told Fox 13.
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The thieves, Vidal Estrada, Lemuel Escobar, Humberto Ramirez and Alberto Obaya, had managed to transfer 20 cases when they were arrested.

They each face charges of charges of grand theft of $100,000 or more; burglary of an unoccupied conveyance; and resisting an officer without violence, the Miami Herald reports.

This isn't the only time someone's tried to make off with free Patrón booze.
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Last year, two men stole several cases of Patrón tequila, containing 72 bottles worth $2,437.20, from a Sam's Club in Florida.

The suspects were seen in the act by a few customers, who chased them down in the parking lot. Only some of the stolen alcohol that they left behind was recovered.

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Someone must've been planning a party... Four thieves in Florida were arrested after stealing half a million dollars' worth of tequila. Around 11 p.m. Sunday night, a truck driver pulling a trailer containing $507,105 worth of Patrón stopped at the Tampa Truck Stop in Hillsborough County to eat dinner.

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Niger's defense ministry says several days of raids have killed more than 280 Boko Haram extremists near the border with Nigeria.

The statement says the land and air raids began on Dec. 28, with more than 200 extremists killed in airstrikes.

Nigeria in November held an urgent meeting with neighbors about what it called an extremist resurgence fueled by the new use of drones.

Niger's statement says no troops were killed in the raids in its east. It notes that Nigeria "suffered a string of recent attacks on its military bases" and that the extremists had been reinvigorated.

Niger's defense minister last month said he feared Boko Haram would launch renewed attacks from January, when the Komadougou-Yobe river which usually prevents border incursions begins to recede.

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Man arrested in connection with burglaries of celeb homes

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It sounds like something out of a Hollywood movie: A man posing as a high-end real estate buyer or broker tours open houses in posh neighborhoods, then returns later, blacking out surveillance cameras and taking millions of dollars worth of items.

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But Los Angeles Police detectives say it's not a movie; it's a real-life case they are now working on.

Detectives announced the arrest of 32-year-old Benjamin Ackerman on Wednesday, although he had been arrested in September and released on $1 million bond, according to jail records.

He's accused of burglarizing numerous celebrities' homes, with alleged victims including Usher, Jason Derulo, Adam Lambert and a member of the cast of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills. Ackerman has not yet been charged by the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office.

Police executed a search warrant on Ackerman's storage unit and found a treasure trove of high-end stolen goods.

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"The execution of the search warrant led not only to the arrest of Ackerman but also to the recovery of over 2,000 high-end items," LAPD Captain Cory Palka told ABC News. The items included stolen art, clothing, purses, and fine wine. Many of the products had brand names, like Rolex and Gucci.

Police recovered so many items that they had to set up a website, where they hope the owners of the items will find them and contact detectives to claim them.

Most of the items taken are worth thousands of dollars each. "We estimate the total worth in the millions of dollars," the lead investigator Detective Jared Timmons said.

Thirteen victims have been identified so far, but detectives believe there are many more who are not yet known. The investigation is ongoing, they said.

"A lot of stuff still has to be verified," said Timmons. "We have diamond necklaces. We have to see what type of diamonds they are, whose they are and what the actual values are."

Police are also working to appraise and inspect all the recovered artwork.

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"The suspect is known to have changed the numbers on artwork," said Timmons. "So if you've purchased any artwork or any items in the Southern California region, please contact us because we have evidence he likes to change numbers and resell this artwork to others."

According to the LAPD, Ackerman would pose as a high-end real estate buyer or agent and tour open houses. After touring an open house, he would come back later and burglarize the home.

Police say his tactics were highly sophisticated. In some cases, he was somehow able to disable surveillance systems, making cameras go black for hours around the time he would allegedly carry out his crime. In other cases, they said, he would simply destroy cameras on the property so he could not be seen.

Ultimately, however, it was the open houses that led police to focus on Ackerman. They noticed that he had signed in to houses that were later burglarized. From there they began following leads and watching Ackerman.

Police said they believe Ackerman had accomplices because the crimes were so intricate, and said he has connections in New York. However, detectives have not yet identified anybody working with Ackerman.

Attempts to reach Ackerman for comment were not successful, and it is unclear whether he had retained an attorney.

Right now police don't believe Ackerman is connected to a larger celebrity burglary ring that was dismantled by the LAPD in November. In that case, the suspects had alleged gang ties. Numerous celebrities have been victims of burglaries around Southern California in recent years.

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A pro Fortnite player named Ninja makes 500,000 dollars a year from prize winnings, adds, sponsors, and streaming donations.

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A teen has been charged after he crashed into a woman when he was throwing eggs out of his car at people. The woman who he crashed into has died, and the 14 year old has been charged.

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An egg-throwing prank in suburban Houston, Texas, ended with a 14-year-old facing a murder charge after the SUV he was driving plowed into a truck and killed a woman, according to the Harris County Sheriff's Office.

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A Houston teenager is charged with murder after he crashed into a women's truck.The 14 year old said that he was fleeing from a motorist who flashed a semi-automatic weapon.The kid ran the red light and crashed into the truck and killed the mother of two kids.It is said that the 14 year was with his friends in the car and they were throwing eggs at other car

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A Houston teenager was charged with murder on Wednesday after he crashed into a woman's truck at an intersection while allegedly being chased by another driver a day prior, police said.

The 14-year-old driver said he was fleeing from a motorist who flashed a semi-automatic weapon at him on Tuesday afternoon when he ran a red light and slammed into 45-year-old Silvia Zavala's Ford F-150 truck, according to police.

Zavala, a mother of two, was pronounced dead at the scene.

Harris County Sheriffs Office

Police did not disclose the minor's identity, but witnesses said he'd been throwing eggs at cars with two other teens when a man allegedly brandished a firearm and began chasing them, the Harris County Sheriff's Office said. His vehicle may have been damaged by the eggs, according to the office.

"The 14-year-old & his two teen passengers were reportedly throwing eggs at other cars just prior to the crash. A separate car gave chase at a high rate of speed & the teen ran the red light striking other truck," Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez said in a tweet. "The deceased female was totally innocent; seems she had just gone shopping based on some debris strewn at scene."

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Gonzalez said the man who allegedly chased the teens is cooperating with police.

Surveillance video from a nearby business captured the deadly crash, showing the underage teen as he slammed his tan GMC Acadia into the woman's pickup truck.

The force of the crash bent the pickup truck's frame and sent both cars airborne, according to the video.

The victim's daughter, Jessica Gaspar, said her mother had been visiting family in Houston and was out running errands at the time of the crash.

"She was about to go back. She was about to come home and get her stuff and say bye and she was about to leave. She couldn't say bye," Gaspar told Houston ABC station KTRK. "He did what he did. He took my mother's life so he has to pay for what happened," she added, referring to the teen driver.

Police said the suspect was booked in a juvenile detention center and broke his ankle in the crash. It's unclear if he has been charged as a minor or an adult. The other two teens in the suspect's car were treated at a hospital for non-life-threatening injuries.

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A 17-year-old New Jersey boy died on New Year’s Day after he plunged at least 20 feet from a ski chairlift at Blue Mountain Resort in Pennsylvania, the coroner’s office said.

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A 17-year-old New Jersey boy died on New Year's Day after he plunged at least 20 feet from a ski chairlift at Blue Mountain Resort in Pennsylvania, the coroner's office said.

Connor Golembiewski was on the chairlift at the popular ski resort in the Pocono Mountains when he fell and hit the ground below about 11:30 a.m., NJ.com reported. He was taken to the hospital where he was pronounced dead.

Carbon County Coroner Robert Miller Jr. said the teen died from multiple blunt force trauma and his death was ruled an accident. Miller said Golembiewski fell about 20 feet, though other reports indicated the drop was nearly double the distance.
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It's unclear if Golembiewski was using the lift bar at the time of the fall, which helps lock skiers in the lift as it transports them up the slopes. The teen reportedly landed on rocks, causing injuries to his head, back and ribs, according to WFMZ.

Golembiewski was in his junior year at Hunterdon Central Regional High School and part of the New Jersey Renegades Hockey Club.

"The NJ Renegades mourn the tragic loss of one of their players, Connor Golembiewski, who passed away tragically on New Year's Day in in a skiing accident," the team wrote in a statement on its website. "Connor was a Renegade starting at the age of 9 playing squirts thru bantams with the Renegades. He was a loyal, hardworking, respectful player that gave his all every time he came to the rink."

Renegades coach Cliff Graziano mourned the teen's death in a Facebook post, saying he lost "a friend" on Tuesday.
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"I had the privilege to coach Connor since the age of 8. I was just on the ice with him 2 days ago doing a lesson with him and his friends," Graziano said in his post. "I often tell my players that I'm their coach and we'll be friends when they are done playing for me."

"Yesterday I lost a friend. This is incredibly difficult to accept and understand," he added.

Golembiewski's death follows two other fatal incidents at the resort last year, NJ.com reported.

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A 17-year-old New Jersey boy died on New Year's Day after he plunged at least 20 feet from a ski chairlift at Blue Mountain Resort in Pennsylvania, the coroner's office said. Connor Golembiewski was on the chairlift at the popular ski resort in the Pocono Mountains when he fell and hit the ground below about 11:30 a.m., NJ.com reported.

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Basketball player blocks shot, slams into backboard

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A 56 year old women believed her boyfriend was going to attack her so she threw bleach at him and he went blind.

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A sheriff's office in South Carolina says a woman told deputies she threw bleach into her boyfriend's eyes on a dare.

The State reports 56-year-old Barbara Davis told deputies she was cleaning during a New Year's Day argument with her 54-year-old boyfriend when he dared her to throw it at him. Authorities did not immediately release his identity.

Davis told Spartanburg County Sheriff's deputies that she believed her boyfriend was going to attack her, so she threw the bleach.

A sheriff's office report says the man told deputies he had lost his vision. He refused medical treatment.

The report says deputies found bleach stains in the living room of the Duncan home and on a sofa. Davis was charged with second-degree domestic violence. It's unclear if she has a lawyer.

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Police: 17-year-old girl arrested after police car joyride

Authorities say a 17-year-old girl took a police cruiser on a joyride following a traffic stop early on New Year's Day in western Michigan.

Grand Rapids police say the girl was a passenger in a minivan that was pulled over about 4:30 a.m. Tuesday following a 911 call about a large fight nearby.

Police say the driver ran away and two officers ran after him, leaving the running police cruiser unattended. The young man was arrested. The other passengers were recorded on the cruiser's dashcam video fleeing the scene.

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Authorities say a 17-year-old girl took a police cruiser on a joyride following a traffic stop early on New Year's Day in western Michigan.

Grand Rapids police say the girl was a passenger in a minivan that was pulled over about 4:30 a.m. Tuesday following a 911 call about a large fight nearby.

Police say the driver ran away and two officers ran after him, leaving the running police cruiser unattended. The young man was arrested. The other passengers were recorded on the cruiser's dashcam video fleeing the scene.

Police say the 17-year-old girl drove away in the cruiser, hit the minivan and ran several stop signs before stopping about a mile (1.6 kilometers) away. She was arrested nearby and faces charges including resisting and obstructing police.

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The man accused of shooting and killing a Northern California police officer the day after Christmas has been charged with murder.

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The man accused of shooting and killing a Northern California police officer the day after Christmas has been charged with murder, according to court documents.

The criminal complaint filed in Stanislaus County for suspect Gustavo Perez Arriaga, 32, a Mexican national, alleges that Arriaga "should have known" that Police Cpl. Ronil Singh was a "sworn police officer acting in the performance of his duties" and therefore "acted intentionally, deliberately and with premeditation."

Singh, 33, was killed on Dec. 26 just before 1 a.m. after he pulled Ariaga over in his a gray Dodge Ram pickup truck because he believed he was under the influence of alcohol, authorities said.

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Arriaga, an undocumented immigrant, was arrested Friday and placed in Singh's handcuffs after law enforcement surrounded a home in Bakersfield, California, about 200 miles south of Stanislaus County. He had tried to flee to Mexico after the shooting, Stanislaus County Sheriff Adam Christianson said after his arrest.

During his arraignment Wednesday, Arriaga told the judge that his real name is Paulo Virgen Mendoza and that Gustavo Perez Arriaga is just one of his aliases, ABC San Francisco station KGO reported. At least three aliases were listed on Arriaga's criminal complaint, and authorities have said that he also used several different names on social media. Authorities also say that he has known gang affiliations.

Arriaga did not enter a plea during the hearing, and his attorney questioned his mental competency, according to KGO. The case has been suspended until he receives a mental health evaluation.

Seven people, including two of Arriaga's brothers, a woman described as his girlfriend and one of his coworkers, have been arrested for either misleading authorities about his whereabouts or aiding him in evading capture.

Arriaga crossed into Arizona from Mexico a couple of years ago and had been working as a farm laborer in California's Central Valley, Christianson said. He has two prior DUI arrests, authorities said.

Christianson blamed California's newly enacted "sanctuary state" law, SB 54, passed in October in response to President Donald Trump's immigration policies, for prohibiting law enforcement in the state from reporting Arriaga as a "criminal illegal alien," to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

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The day after the shooting, as authorities scoured the state for Arriaga, Trump tweeted, "Time to get tough on Border Security. Build the Wall!"

Singh, originally from Fiji, had been with the Newman Police Department since July 2011 and had previously worked at the Merced County Sheriff's Department, California Gov. Jerry Brown said in a statement. He is survived by his wife and a 5-month-old son.

Arriaga's public defender, Dan Martin, did not immediately return ABC News' request for comment.

ABC News' Bill Hutchinson, Emily Shapiro and Gina Sunseri contributed to this report.

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Four men were arrested after stealing half a million dollars worth of tequila in Florida from a parked truck. They stole the back compartment of the truck and just left the cab. The truck driver came out and saw that the back of the truck was missing and called the police.

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Someone must've been planning a party...

Four thieves in Florida were arrested after stealing half a million dollars' worth of tequila.

Around 11 p.m. Sunday night, a truck driver pulling a trailer containing $507,105 worth of Patrón stopped at the Tampa Truck Stop in Hillsborough County to eat dinner.
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About an hour later, he discovered the entire trailer was missing, with only his truck cab parked in the lot.

Authorities searched the area and found the trailer about 11 miles away around 12:30 a.m., where the four suspects were transferring the alcohol into a box truck.

"We do know it was organized, and this had been planned because the box truck was there to meet them," Danny Alvarez, a spokesperson for Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office, told Fox 13.
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The thieves, Vidal Estrada, Lemuel Escobar, Humberto Ramirez and Alberto Obaya, had managed to transfer 20 cases when they were arrested.

They each face charges of charges of grand theft of $100,000 or more; burglary of an unoccupied conveyance; and resisting an officer without violence, the Miami Herald reports.

This isn't the only time someone's tried to make off with free Patrón booze.
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Last year, two men stole several cases of Patrón tequila, containing 72 bottles worth $2,437.20, from a Sam's Club in Florida.

The suspects were seen in the act by a few customers, who chased them down in the parking lot. Only some of the stolen alcohol that they left behind was recovered.

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Four thieves arrested after stealing half a million dollars worth of tequila

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Someone must've been planning a party... Four thieves in Florida were arrested after stealing half a million dollars' worth of tequila. Around 11 p.m. Sunday night, a truck driver pulling a trailer containing $507,105 worth of Patrón stopped at the Tampa Truck Stop in Hillsborough County to eat dinner.