Moment thief disguised as Foot Locker worker drags wheelie bin packed with £3,000 of stolen clothes and trainers away

This is the moment a brazen thief posing as a Foot Locker employee hauls a wheelie bin packed with £3,000 worth of stolen trainers after raiding the sportswear store. 

Reece Wheat, 28, disguised himself in the firm’s distinctive black and white striped uniform before he rushed away with thousands of pounds worth of goods. 

He was aided, by accomplice, Ellis Bishop, 30, who helped him break in and haul away the stolen loot on Clumber Street in Nottingham on May 13, this year. 

Shocking CCTV cameras caught the shameless duo pushing the stolen items along the street packed in two wheelie bins, which had been nabbed from a nearby bar.

The hooded crook was also captured helping Wheat to break in before bundling the stolen items into the wheelie bins waiting outside. 

Later that day, Wheat was arrested after being spotted near the Footlocker store boldly wearing some of pinched Nike clothing.

It was later found that the serial thief had also broken into a bike shed in Station Street, and had also shoplifted £30 worth of washing capsules from Savers. 

Now Wheat has been jailed for nine months, while Bishop was given a 26-week prison sentence after pleading guilty at Nottingham Magistrates’ Court. 

Reece Wheat, 28, disguised himself as a Footlocker employee before stealing £3,000 worth of goods 

Ellis Bishop helped the crook to break in to the store before they bundled the stolen items into wheelie bins outside

Wheat was arrested later that day after being seen near the Footlocker store boldly wearing some of pinched Nike clothing

Pictured left to right: Reece Wheat who stole thousands from a Footlocker store and his accomplice, Ellis Bishop of Nottingham

Detectives found the accomplice was also responsible for three other shop thefts in the city centre on May, 27 June 15 and June 20.

Bishop of Nottingham, was charged with burglary and four counts of shop theft, including the theft of the bins.

PC Ben King, of Nottinghamshire Police’s city centre neighbourhood policing team, said: ‘Thousands of pounds worth of stock was stolen during this break-in, before being paraded through the city centre in a pair of wheelie bins.

‘Ellis Bishop played a leading role in this brazen burglary by taking the bins from a neighbouring shop and then helping Reece Wheat fill them with stolen trainers and clothes.

‘Unlike his accomplice, he didn’t leave forensic evidence at the scene, so identifying him was a bit trickier.

‘After extensively reviewing the footage available, however, we were able to link him to his offending by the tattoos he had on show and the trainers on his feet.

‘Retail crime can have a real impact on businesses and the staff that work there, so we’re pleased to have now locked up both the people responsible for this burglary.’