Usenet Newsgroups $45 wine for $1.59? What an (illegal) deal! From: garrison@efn.org (Garrison Hilliard) <Discount ideas, folks!> A purveyor of fine wines could do hard time - a year in prison - after two arrests for removing bar-codes from cheap stuff and placing the stickers on finer bottles before hitting the checkout lines at area grocery stores. Dominic Rizzo, a 38-year-old self-employed Madeira man, was first arrested by Montgomery officers in late April after getting caught selecting a $44.99 bottle of wine from a Kroger Store in Montgomery and placing a bar code on it for a bottle that would ring up a less princely fee of $1.59, according to court documents. He then went through a self-scanner line at the grocery store. While police were interviewing him on April 23, court records say, Rizzo admitted to the Montgomery police officer that he had been doing the same thing at another Kroger Store, this one at 11390 Montgomery Road in Symmes Township. That's when Hamilton County Sheriff's Office deputies started their investigation. Court records from the Symmes case say that on back-to-back dates in mid-April, Rizzo removed tags from cheaper bottles - one at a price of $5.99 and another at a price of $3.99, and placed them on high-end bottles. The values of the two bottles of Crystal Wines and the value of the bottles of Far-Niepe and Cardinale Winery that Rizzo is accused of leaving the store with on two occasions were not listed in court records. Rizzo was arrested on Wednesday and jailed for three hours before being processed out. The latest case will be rolled over to Judge Brad Greenberg's court when the original case in Montgomery goes to trial. An official love shack">date of the trial has not been selected, though there is a hearing on the matter in Greenberg's court later this month. Subject  $45 wine for $1.59? What an (illegal) deal!