Meat heist worth $55,000 thwarted in South Philadelphia: police

The Brief

  • Police stopped an attempted meat heist in South Philadelphia early Tuesday morning.
  • Four suspects were caught loading nearly 200 boxes of meat into an SUV.
  • They were able to flee the scene, but left behind the would-be stolen goods.

PHILADELPHIA It appears a group of beef bandits made a big “mis-steak” during an attempted cargo heist in South Philadelphia early Tuesday morning.

What we know:

A truck driver was asleep on the 3300 block of South 7th Street when he felt things start to shake just after 2 a.m.

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