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March 19, 2008
How to Scam Del Taco and Go To Jail
Photo by ArtBrom via Flickr
Stealing $15 of Del Taco food for you and your buddies can land you a maximum of seven years in prison. That's what two accomplices are up against in a case where three men filmed themselves tricking Del Taco employees over the phone to give them a free meal and then posting it on YouTube. The video's "star," Robert Echeverria, who Rialto police said is a known gang member and was "crying like a baby" at the station before making a plea bargain to serve 30 days in jail with three years of probation.
"How To Scam Del Taco" was posted on YouTube (embedded below) on February 22nd (it has over 20,000 views so far) and after a tip to police, the three were soon in custody. The two boys posted bail, but Echeverria remained as he could not produce enough money to follow suit.
For prosecutors, this is a slam dunk case and say they've never had anything so ready to go. Echeverria was scheduled to be in court yesterday. The three say they were just fooling around and never intended this to be blown out of "proportion." Stealing is stealing, isn't it? Video after the jump.
"How To Scam Del Taco" -- Nikel'n Dime Productions
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Man. Maybe I'm just lazy, but all that for some free Del Taco?
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Hahahahah idiots! Del Taco is terrible food, anyway.
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I wonder if Isaiah and Cody got anything to eat?
Real good role model eh?
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Ha! They even posed for their own mug shots at the end!
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What a bunch of fucking morons.
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From the looks of the fat f**k he prolly did that a lot!
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In the 90s, I was eating in the restaurant on the ground floor of the New Otani when my date broke a tooth on a shell they left in his seafood.
Last weekend I redeemed a voucher for a free night's stay at Westin Long Beach because of a problem with a previous stay.
Both times I was treated like a con artist trying to rip the place off and was totally humiliated. It's guys like this that make the rest of us get treated like we're always running a scam.
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basically the 2 white boys posted bail.
and how bout that sign....
this is what happens when you do too much meth.
how much is this costing taxpayers to arrest, book and prosecute these 3 "hoodlums"
way to go police....getting those criminals off our streets.
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CEO of the company? hahaha
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It was just good social engineering if you ask me. If anything he did del taco a favor showing them how easy it is to take advantage of their employees. He did not steal anything. so i wonder what he was charged with.
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THis sucks, so why is this guy not injail?
http://youtube.com/watch?v=dBSDfo5g2tw
cause he's white and rich?
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that was very real there are poeple that do that as you see
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This seems like a horrendous waste of police resources for $15 worth of merchandise and I'm a little offended that in a city like Rialto with a higher average of Rapes, Murders and Aggravated Assaults then then national average* that police would waste time on what basically amounts to a prank.
Plus, a "known gang member" and dangerous crimminal is hardly likely to be crying upon arrest so this whole thing stinks of profiling,over reaction and a horrendous waste of resources to me.
*See: http://rialto.areaconnect.com/crime1.htm for some statistics