Philadelphia police are looking for four masked men in four separate vehicles who made off with large amount of frozen meat from a tractor trailer.
Monday, November 24, 2025 1:45PMA truck driver says he chased off masked men during a meat theft heist in Northeast Philadelphia. Philadelphia police are looking for at least four masked men in four separate vehicles who made off with a large amount of frozen meat early Monday morning.
However, the driver told Action News he thinks it was 12 suspects but doesn't believe they were armed.It happened around 2:15 a.m. on Red Lion and Norcom roads."The reefer unit started going up and down, up and down, changing sound. So that's kind of unusual. And I felt the truck and trailer moving, so I pulled the curtain to look to see what was going on and sure enough, there was four vehicles sitting back there, and a bunch of guys pulling stuff out of the trailer," driver Kurt Landry said. He said the then chased them off with a baseball bat, making for a hectic getaway and a bit of a mess, with the suspect leaving pieces of meat and boxes strewn across the parking lot.This type of crime is not new to the area, especially in the Northeast and in South Philadelphia.more than doubled from 2021 to 2022, and since then, we've seen more than a couple hundred a year. The thieves target truck drivers while they're parked overnight, usually while they're sleeping. They break in and take what they can get -- anything from TVs to liquor to crab legs. But meat seems to be the most common and it's valuable.Landry was scheduled to make a delivery at Quaker Valley Foods around 5 a.m. after driving from Tyson Foods in Nebraska.Police are checking area surveillance for a better description of the suspects.Related Topics
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