Stuart Green is the author of "Thirteen Ways to Steal a Bicycle: Theft Law in the Information Age," and a law professor at Rutgers Law School-Newark. Updated January 14, 2013, 5:49 PM I’m always ...

Police near Washington, D.C. raided the home of a drug dealer, and found cocaine and nearly 20 large bottles of Tide. Thieves love to steal the detergent because it is easily sold on the black market.

To be sure people know this is detergent, we put a large picture of our Tide bottle on the side of the box. Whether your Tide comes in a box or a bottle, it should be stored up and away ...

The more fascinating question than what these thieves are buying with their bottle money is: Why Tide? It turns out there are pluses to stealing Tide, if steal something you must. It’s a ...

According to the Associated Press, officers there say that drug dealers have started urging their clientele to pay with Tide bottles in lieu of cash. A alleged quote from one dealer: "I'm out of ...

To be sure people know this is detergent, we put a large picture of our Tide bottle on the side of the box,” the company said in a statement to the website. “Whether your Tide comes in a box ...