In February 2010, criminal investigators tailed a pair of Penske rental trucks more than 300 miles, from a self-storage facility in Phoenix, Ariz., to a small house on the outskirts of Perris, Calif. They watched as the drivers transferred their loads to two handyman’s vans. Then they drove the vans across town to a set of metal warehouses bespangled with razor wire and signs for Perris Valley Recycling.
The contraband involved was not illegal drugs, untaxed cigarettes or stolen flat screens, but a far more prosaic commodity: aluminum cans.
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