Police in Brantford, Ont., are trying to find two males who slipped away from a grocery retailer with $1,200 price of butter.
The theft occurred on Oct. 29 at about 8:25 p.m. from a grocery retailer at Lynden Highway and Wayne Gretzky Parkway, Brantford Police Service stated in a information launch.
The suspects had been caught on safety cameras and are described by police as carrying all black clothes, together with black baseball hats.
They fled the scene in a white van, stated police.
This isn’t the primary giant amount of butter to be stolen in southern Ontario in current months, however police do not know if the instances are linked.
9 thefts have been reported to Guelph police within the final 12 months, stated spokesperson Scott Tracey.
“It is actually uncommon however there’s an organized side to it,” Tracey advised Ontario Chronicle.
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Ontario butter thieves strike once more with ‘large-scale’ robberies
Police in Guelph, Ont., say there have been seven ‘large-scale’ butter thefts during the last 10 months, together with two in October. The latest instances resulted in losses of greater than $900 every.
The stolen butter finally ends up on the black market, or on resale web sites, however is troublesome to trace, stated Guelph police.
Sylvain Charlebois, a Dalhousie College professor who research meals distribution, stated together with it being “significantly straightforward” to resell, butter additionally freezes properly for a very long time — making it a scorching commodity for thieves.
Butter retail costs have shot up in recent times. For instance, a brick bought for $4.20 on common in Ontario in August 2020, in response to Statistics Canada. A brick now sells for $5.74.
The most recent theft occurred in late October when two males positioned 4 instances of butter price over $950 in a cart and walked out an emergency exit, Guelph police stated in a information launch.
“Butter continues to be a scorching commodity for thieves in Guelph,” the assertion stated.
As of Tuesday, no arrests have been made in that incident, Tracey stated.
Guelph and Brantford police are asking anybody with data to contact investigators or Crime Stoppers.
