upi.com Wrote:NEWARK, Del., Jan. 29 (UPI) -- A Delaware man arrested Friday is suspected of stealing thousands of pairs of men's shoes and photos of men during the past 20 years, police said.
Walter J. Rubincon, 46, of Newark, allegedly targeted student housing during vacations, The Baltimore Sun reported. He was linked to the long string of burglaries after a man was spotted dumping three bags of shoes in a creek in Maryland and then driving away in a yellow Mitsubishi Eclipse.
Police said three truckloads of what were believed to be stolen goods were removed from Rubincon's house. In addition to 150 boxes of shoes and photographs, investigators found a mandolin, eight guitars, eight snowboards and a surfboard.
The shoes found in Little Elk Creek, Md., were also stolen, police said.
No one has had time yet to count the shoes but investigators say there appear to be several thousand.