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HERSHEY, Pa. (AP) — The Pennsylvania State Police are hoping to prevent a detergent thief from making a clean getaway. Troopers say an unidentified man loaded up his shopping cart with more than a dozen 150-ounce bottles of laundry detergent early Tuesday then left the Giant Food Store in South Hanover Township without paying. Police say the man drove away in a dark gray sport-utility vehicle. Police say that happened about 3:20 a.m. at the store near Hershey. Police believe the same man stole detergent form the same store on Nov. 3, too.

Clean getaway: Police seek Pennsylvania detergent thief