High steaks robbery: Thieves steal $10,000 worth of frozen beef in second cargo heist this week
Another truck driver’s trailer cargo was stolen while the driver slept in the cab. The same kind of robbery happened on Tuesday morning.
Thieves stole pallets of frozen beef from the back of a tractor-trailer early Thursday morning in Tacony, following a similar cargo heist of frozen crab two days prior in Southwest Philadelphia.
While a truck driver was asleep in the cab of his truck on the 5200 block of Devereaux Avenue, a group of unidentified suspects cut off the rear padlock of his trailer and removed five pallets of beef valued at $10,000, around 4 a.m.
The driver awoke after hearing movement in the back of the vehicle and recorded the beef thieves on his cell phone. He then reported the theft at 4:12 a.m. The thieves soon fled like a beef in the night.
Police were able to identify a dark gray Nissan sedan and two dark-colored SUVs as the vehicles the suspects used. No description of the suspects is available, and no arrests have been made.
Thursday’s robbery is the latest in a string of cargo heists, following the six men who pinched more than 3,000 pounds of frozen snow crab from the back of a truck driver’s trailer as he slept Tuesday morning in Southwest Philadelphia. In an early-October heist, $40,000 worth of frozen ground beef was stolen from a trailer in Northeast Philly, and a September robbery in South Philadelphia saw robbers make off with half a pallet of Black Angus beef ribs.
A Philadelphia man was recently sentenced to nearly eight years in prison in connection to cargo thefts in 2023 that had an estimated value of more than $1.5 million, including frozen crab.
