Charged Trenton worker Paul Bethea says 'I didn’t steal nothing' in newly released footage

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When Terry Wells showed up with another pastor to his city building last spring to retrieve a desk, he found the door padlocked.

He called city sanitation worker Paul Bethea to see what was going on.

They got into an argument and Bethea hung up, then stopped answering the phone.

Frustrated over what was happening, Wells called cops and waited for them to arrive before cutting the lock off the door to his sprawling warehouse at 675 Prospect Street, body camera footage and police records show.

He told officers during the April 2 encounter that he allowed Bethea to park two commercial vehicles in his lot because the city was giving Bethea trouble about the vehicles being parked on the street in his neighborhood.

The pastor claimed Bethea, who faces a theft-related charge, took advantage of his generosity, storing stuff inside without permission.

“He’s acting like he owns my place,” Wells said. “He has no lease here at all.”

The cops’ ears perked up when Wells mentioned snow blowers and lawn mowers, recalling those same missing items from past reports.

“That’s very interesting,” officer Ryan Lawlor said as Wells led cops into the building.

Inside the warehouse — which Wells dreamed of making into a one-stop congregation before the city foreclosed on the building — was a veritable hardware store of allegedly hot goods.

Along with what was discovered inside, footage showed cops standing next to two shipping storage containers, one with a serial number scratched off, that allegedly contained more property which Bethea brought to Wells’ lot, apparently under his nose.

In all, cops seized 170 items, including more than 70 bicycles, 29 lawn mowers, 10 power washers, nine snow blowers, six weed wackers, six air compressors, some jacks and vacuums, according to police records.

They also seized Bethea’s yellow box truck for further investigation.

“You done pry solved like 100 crimes,” officer Sarai Cheek told Wells as they traversed the building.

Bethea, who lived not far away on Alden Avenue, was later hooked and booked on site.

“What they said I stole? Theft? I didn’t steal nothing,” Bethea, the ex-second vice president for ASCME Local 2286, told an officer while being loaded up in a black-and-white paddy wagon.

The pudgy sanitation worker — who was out on worker’s compensation with a bad back for nearly two years — slid sideways into the cruiser before being taken to police headquarters.

“They’re not built for comfort,” one of the cops said.

“I know that’s right,” Bethea responded.

Despite the discovery of the hot goods, self-proclaimed hustler Bethea faces only a single count of receiving stolen property — for now.

The Mercer County Prosecutor’s Office said Bethea could face more charges once his case is indicted

His attorney, Robin Lord, says he’s innocent and there’s more to what happened.