$400,000 of Stolen Nuts

$400,000 of Stolen Nuts Latest in Odd Food Heists

By ALEXA VALIENTE | Good Morning America

Hamburgers, chicken wings and cheese have one thing in common, and it's not a summer barbecue.

These are all categories of food that have been reported stolen in mass quantities from manufacturers and shipping yards.
In the past year, thieves made away with other large amounts of foodstuffs. Retail values of the goods ranged from $20,000 to $400,000.
From burger patties to Canadian maple syrup, we've gathered some of the strangest food theft stories here.

$400,000 Worth of Walnuts

California's fourth-biggest agricultural export, walnuts were the latest target of food thieves in Escalon, a city about 88 miles east of San Francisco.

The thieves stole 140,000 pounds of walnuts worth $400,000 on Nov. 3 from grower GoldenRiver Orchards, the Los Angeles Times reported.

$25,000 in Kentucky Bourbon

Cops believe the theft of more than $25,000 worth of a rare Kentucky bourbon was an inside job.
Some 65 cases of 20-year-old Pappy Van Winkle were stolen from the Buffalo Trace distillery in Frankfort, Ky., on Oct.15.
Just 6,000 cases of the hooch are distilled a year. A bottle retails for about $130, but can sell for four times that on the secondary market.
Buffalo Trace recently warned customers that production could not keep pace with demand, sending prices and interest in the brand soaring.
No suspects have been named in the theft.

$100,000 in Hamburger Patties

A "patty" thief stole a refrigerated trailer containing 3,000 cartons of hamburger patties from a New Jersey shipping yard this week, according to New Jersey police.
Authorities were called to the scene last Tuesday, when the shipping yard's owner alerted them to the missing burger patties worth $100,000, according to the police report.

$75,000 Worth of Soup

One man in Florida had the soup of the day -- $75,000 worth of it.
Florida highway patrol stopped a truck packed with soup on the Florida turnpike April 6, and the driver was accused of stealing the truck – and the soup. The vehicle was being tracked by GPS.
Sgt. Mark Wysocky of the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles told ABCNews.com that the Lessors Inc. tractor trailer and the soup have a total value of $350,000.

11,000 Pounds of Nutella

Who could blame thieves for stealing 11,000 pounds of creamy Nutella goodness?
The chocolate-hazelnut spread was stolen April 8 from a truck parked at a former train station in Niederaula, Germany.
According to Osthessen news, about $20,000 worth of the spread and other goods were stolen. Police believe that the Nutella thieves transferred the truck's cargo to another truck.
Large-scale food thefts are not unheard of in this particular area in Germany: Five tons of coffee and a truckload of Red Bull energy drinks have also previously gone missing, according to Osthessen news.

21 Tons of Cheese

A man faced the cheesiest of criminal charges in New Jersey.

The suspect was accused of stealing 42,000 pounds of Muenster cheese from a Wisconsin cheese company. He was arrested at a Bergen County rest area on the New Jersey Turnpike on March 25, the result of a joint investigation with the Saddle Brook New Jersey Police Department and the New Jersey State Police.

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