The Martin County Sheriff’s Office said a 24-year-old Miami man stopped at 20 restaurants on the Treasure Coast looking for used cooking oil.
Used cooking oil is used to make biodiesel fuel and is part of a multi-billion dollar industry, MCSO said.
Martin County Sheriff’s Office deputies said on Tuesday, they followed Yadriel Luis Zaragoza to at least 20 restaurants including some in Stuart.
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Zaragoza is wanted in another Florida county in connection to used cooking oil thefts. Detectives said none of the establishments Zaragoza stopped at gave permission for anyone to tamper with their oil storage containers.
After conducting surveillance, deputies performed a traffic stop on Zaragoza in Jensen Beach and found two crowbars and a bolt cutter inside his car.
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