In the early morning hours of Monday, November 24, 2025, in Northeast Philadelphia, a large theft of frozen meat took place in a parking lot at Red Lion Road and Norcom Road, where a truck driver awoke to find masked individuals removing pallets of beef from his trailer. According to CBS Philadelphia, the incident occurred around 2:00 to 2:15 a.m. near the Northeast Philadelphia Airport. The thieves were operating across four separate vehicles and made off with four pallets of frozen meat before fleeing the area.
The driver, identified as 55-year-old Kurt Landry, had been hauling frozen beef from Tyson Foods in Nebraska and was scheduled to deliver the load to Quaker Valley Foods around 5 a.m. He was asleep when the theft began. Landry said he woke up after hearing the refrigerated unit on the trailer repeatedly going “up and down” and changing sound, and also feeling the truck and trailer moving. When he pulled back the curtain from inside the cab, he saw four vehicles positioned behind the trailer and multiple people removing items from it.
Landry exited the truck with a baseball bat, which caused the suspects to run off and drop some of the frozen meat and boxes across the parking lot. According to police, he reported that 10 to 12 people had been actively taking meat from the trailer during the incident. After the suspects escaped, pieces of frozen beef and scattered packaging remained on the ground, and police said the truck had been damaged…