BALTIMORE – The owner of a burnt-down Maryland crab shack was arrested for allegedly stealing equipment and at least 10 bushels of live crabs from several different crab shacks throughout Cecil County and Delaware.
Some of the stolen equipment and crabs were found during a search Sunday at the home of Zac Bennett, who owned Zac’s Crab Shack, which went up in flames on July 8 on Route 213 south of Elkton.
Bennett was taken into custody and awaits extradition to Delaware. An accomplice is still at large and has yet to be identified.
On July 31, the Cecil County Sheriff’s Office was called to investigate a theft from K&A Crabs on Old Chestnut Road.
“Basically everything that was outside equipment-wise, so all of our pots, our burners that we had sitting out there, he had taken,” said K&A Crabs owner Alyson Getty.
The sheriff’s office says Maryland and Delaware state police investigated similar crimes, with Bennett identified in all of them.