Authorities Seize $58,000 in Stolen Candy
Categories: Crime
Last week, law enforcers in western Missouri area sniffed out a huge trove of hot merch: about four tractor trailers worth of car batteries, lampshades, pillows and, yes, $58,000 in assorted Halloween candy.
Candy? you ask. Is there a black market for that?
Not necessarily.
"A lot of times these [tractor trailer] thieves are getting the trailers not knowing what the load is," says Lieutenant David Millsap of the Springfield Police Department, adding to Daily RFT: "It's a huge industry problem, it's exploded over the last couple of years."
Indeed: the The Wall Street Journal just reported in February that the number of trailers stolen nationally has increased by about a hundred every year for the last few years.
See the original story on the Kansas City-area seizure in the Springfield News-Leader.
Candy? you ask. Is there a black market for that?
Not necessarily.
"A lot of times these [tractor trailer] thieves are getting the trailers not knowing what the load is," says Lieutenant David Millsap of the Springfield Police Department, adding to Daily RFT: "It's a huge industry problem, it's exploded over the last couple of years."
Indeed: the The Wall Street Journal just reported in February that the number of trailers stolen nationally has increased by about a hundred every year for the last few years.
See the original story on the Kansas City-area seizure in the Springfield News-Leader.
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