Mentos - The Arrestmaker

A man pushing a shopping cart full of candy and cold cuts through Roxbury streets in the wee hours found himself under arrest after he was unable to prove he had paid for the stuff - and after a local supermarket reported a purloined cart of candy.

Police say Carlos Reyes, 39, was stopped around 3:30 a.m. on Wednesday outside 21 Greenville St. pushing a cart filled with "several cases of Twizzlers licorice, Mentos candy mints, Trident chewing gum and cold meat products."

Police say Reyes told officers a friend had given him the loaded cart in exchange for a $200 debt. But a manager at the Stop & Shop at South Bay told officers that "an employee of the store was in the process of restocking the candy shelves when the cart disappeared."

Reyes was charged with larceny.

Innocent, etc.