1.   Although newspapers do not want to carry advertisements for stolen merchandise, until someone alerts them, publications have no way of knowing who is not legitimate.

2.   He stopped to recall how he happily bought stolen merchandise looted by friends from area businesses five years ago.

3.   In addition to the stolen merchandise, train officials must deal with the mess left behind.

4.   In the aggressive move against the flow of information, presidential aide Paul Begala has even suggested that the news media are dealing in stolen merchandise.

5.   On Thursday, Jack Manning Meador and Jane Meador Cook pleaded innocent to conspiracy charges of receiving stolen merchandise.

6.   The police said that Medley tried to contact Lassman, offering to sell back the stolen merchandise, starting with two canceled paychecks from the Yankees.

7.   They might be more likely to accept a reward, however, than risk fencing the stolen merchandise, Shillingford said.

8.   Others browsed through a makeshift market featuring generators, beds, household items and other stolen merchandise.

9.   Other looters burst into the retirement center lobby, looking for a place to stash stolen merchandise while they went back for more.

10.   A security guard at the store was quoted by the paper as saying he saw a pair of men who may have walked off with the stolen merchandise.