Police in the town of Milford, DE. have arrested four local residents on charges that they operated an internal thief ring targeting a Perdue plant. According to the indictment, product to the value of $30,000 was stolen over an extended period.
It is evident that the high price of protein has attracted the attention of criminals as evidenced by recent arrests of perpetrators of an organized scheme to steal loaded trailers containing beef and pork from plants in the Midwest with a combined value estimated at $10 million.