http://www.kansascity.com/637/story/1155384.html
And so starts the black market.
Pssst! Wanna buy 34,000 pounds of frozen chicken?
Kansas City police are trying to track the bags of frozen chicken parts, stolen from Arkansas-based Simmons Foods. Company officials Monday night called the police after their tracking device on a stolen trailer led them to believe the trailer had been parked in the area of Truman Road and Jackson Avenue.
The chicken was valued at $60,000.
Police found that trailer, plus five others, all thought to have been stolen. They think someone backed up a tractor to the trailers and drove off with them.
One trailer had been reported stolen from a chicken processing plant in Oklahoma. Another trailer contained snack foods. But most of the food already had been removed from the trailers.
“There’s a lot of chicken out there,” said Sgt. Keith Ericsson, who is supervising the investigation. “There is a public safety concern because we don’t know how it is being transported or kept. It’s not being regulated.”
Ericsson said he wasn’t worried that the pilfered chicken would end up at well-known grocery stores, but he thought some could have been sold on the street or to mom and pop-type stores
