A box truck carrying nearly 500 frozen turkeys intended for a Thanksgiving giveaway was stolen from a California nonprofit over the weekend, disrupting one of the community’s largest holiday food distributions.
Riverside County sheriff’s deputies were called to a church on Auto Center Drive in Lake Elsinore (Riverside County) just before 8 a.m. Saturday, where members of the U.R. Important Foundation had been sorting donations for their annual holiday program.
Deputies searched the area but were unable to locate the truck, which volunteers said was taken during a brief break. Authorities are now reviewing surveillance footage…