Man accused of meat theft

Tuesday April 13 2010

THIS is the man accused of stealing over €350 worth of meat products from a southside supermarket.

Patrick Byrne (31) is alleged to have taken the legs of lamb from Superquinn in Blackrock on a number of dates in early March.

The accused, (right*) of Longford Street Little, Dublin 2, is alleged to have walked into the supermarket, picked up a number of legs and shoulders of lamb, and walked out without paying.

Dun Laoghaire District Court heard the DPP has directed summary disposal of the matter in the District Court. The matter was adjourned for four weeks.

(*the photo is absent from the website)

http://www.herald.ie/national-news/courts/man-accused-of-meat-theft-2135698.html

Meat stolen from local grocery store

Posted By Daily News Staff

Posted 8 hours ago

Two Chatham residents are charged with theft under $5,000 and possession of stolen property after meat was stolen from No Frills on Queen Street Saturday afternoon.

Chatham-Kent police allege a man entered the store around 3 p.m. and took $80 worth of meat before leaving without making an attempt to pay.

At about the same time, police said a woman entered the store and allegedly stole $80 worth of poultry.

Both thefts went unnoticed until Sunday, when the store manager reviewed the surveillance video, police said.

Both suspects, a 23-year-old man and 20-year-old woman, are charged.

They were held for a bail hearing.

Source: Chatham Daily News

Local food pantry dealing with theft of hundreds of pounds of meat

A La Crosse food pantry is dealing with a slight setback.

It comes after someone stole about 500 pounds of donated frozen meat from a chest freezer at the Wafer food pantry last week.

The executive director says it doesn't appear someone broke into the building but that people are coming and going throughout the day.

She says they can replace frozen hamburger patties for about 25 cents a pound, but it'd be too expensive to restock the donated food that was in the freezer. Wafer Executive Director Heidi Blanke says, "we can replace 500 pounds not too expensively but we won't get the variety of meat that was in there. There was shrimp, steaks, ribs, all kinds of wonderful items that we don't normally get if we had to purchase them."

Blanke says they do food pick-up's from a local store about three times a week and they also buy from food banks. However, the variety in foods usually comes from donations.

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Store is peppered with meat thieves

times.series@archant.co.uk
25 March 2010

Retailers warned that an area is suffering a shoplifting epidemic - of posh meat and biscuits.

Despite police officers stepping up the fight against crime by launching a new security marking system, unperturbed thieves are stealing vast quantities of steak and expensive meat joints, and flogging them to recession-hit middle class families.

Gilbert Abou-Haydor, manager at Marks & Spencer in Kilburn High Road, said the store has suffered a large rise in thefts of their top end meats and biscuits, and that the problem had got so bad he has resorted to electronically tagging his meats.

He said: "Shoplifters are stealing from our meat section. Yesterday a man headed straight to our meat counter and scooped up about ten pieces of steak.

"When I asked him if he intended to buy them he said no and put them back. Some are so persistent - you throw them out but they lurk by the doors ready to come in again when the security guards aren't working."

Council officers think thieves are stealing more and more expensive meat and luxury biscuits, and selling them to cash-strapped customers who can no longer afford the fine dining experience.

Carmen Jones, senior community safety officer at Camden Council, said: "The shoplifters come and steal from shops like M&S and then sell it round the corner or in the local pub."

Police from Brent and Camden who patrol the high road have vowed to tackle the phenomenon by handing out property markers to retailers to help track down their stolen goods.

So far nearly 30 retailers have signed up to the scheme.

Maureen Flannery, deputy head of Brent Council's community partnership trust, which oversees policing in the area, said: "We are determined to stop these thieves.

"We want to raise the confidence of people so that they can help tackle crime by signing up to the scheme."

If the markers are successful in Kilburn High Road, it will be rolled out to other parts of the borough.

kate.ferguson@archant.co.uk

Link: Wembley and Kingsbury Times