There are many solid reasons not to steal used cooking oil from restaurant dumpsters. Having an active warrant from the U.S. Marshals Service should probably rank somewhere near the top of that list.
Early Wednesday morning (around 5:37 a.m. on Oct. 28), Auburn officers got a call about two people loading used cooking oil into a van behind Jasmine Restaurant at Auburn Plaza. A sharp-eyed TJ Maxx employee spotted them and called it in. The van took off before officers arrived.
A short time later, police located a suspicious van parked behind Chili’s on Southbridge Street. Inside were large containers meant for collecting cooking oil—one of them already partially filled. Neither restaurant had given anyone permission to take anything…