$10k in beef stolen from tractor-trailer in Northeast Philly – NBC10 Philadelphia

$10k in beef stolen from tractor-trailer in Northeast Philly  NBC10 Philadelphia

A driver awoke in a tractor-trailer parked along Devereaux Avenue in Northeast Philly early Thursday to find five pallets of beef stolen, police say. Another truck heist in Philadelphia. This time, thieves got away with $10,000 worth of beef. Police are investigating whether the thefts are connected. NBC10’s Miguel Martinez-Valle reports. That may have been the first question that came to mind for a tractor-trailer driver in Northeast Philly early Thursday after, police say, thousands of dollars worth of beef was stolen from a parked truck. Stream Philadelphia News for free, 24/7, wherever you are with NBC10. According to police, officers responded at about 4:12 a.m. on Thursday to the 5200 block of Devereaux Street in the Wissinoming section of Northeast Philly after a tractor-trailer driver reported a cargo theft.

The driver told responding officers that he was awaken while sleeping in the cab of the tractor-trailer to find an unknown number of offenders had cut a padlock on the rear trailer and were loading products into their vehicles. He shot cellphone video of the thieves as they fled the scene in a dark gray Nissan sedan and a pair of dark-colored SUVs, officials said. In an afternoon update, police shared images that the driver captured of the vehicles as the fled the area. Once the thieves left the area,