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Northern Idaho Stores Report Cardboard Theft

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COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho (AP) - Two stores in northern Idaho have reported the theft of cardboard with an estimated value of more than $15,000. 

The Coeur d'Alene Press reports (http://bit.ly/YnjYQE) the Fred Meyer store in Coeur d'Alene reported the theft of 100 bales of cardboard worth $100 each in early January. 

Managers at the Walmart in Hayden, about 3 or 4 miles north of the Fred Meyer store, reported a total of $5,400 in cardboard was taken on Jan. 27 and Feb. 11. 

A Fred Meyer employee said they realized the cardboard was missing after reading about the Walmart theft in the newspaper. 

Surveillance video from the Walmart theft shows a man loading the cardboard on a flatbed trailer with a forklift.

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