--- description: An estimated $110,000 worth of beef title: Someone Stole 40,000 Pounds of Hamburger Meat from Milwaukee image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Newsfeed](/tag/time-section-newsfeed/) ## Newsfeed Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Someone Stole 40,000 Pounds of Hamburger Meat from Milwaukee by [Melissa Locker](/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Dec 1, 2015 7:27 PM CUT by [Melissa Locker](/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Dec 1, 2015 7:27 PM CUT A truck containing enough ground beef to make 160,000 burgers has disappeared. The theft was discovered when a truck loaded with 20 tons of meat failed to make a scheduled delivery to a meatpacking plant in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. When the plant investigated the whereabouts of the wayward meat delivery, they learned that a trucker made the scheduled pickup at the Nicholas Meatpacking plant near Loganton, Pennsylvania, loaded up his tractor trailer, and drove off. He was supposed to deliver the 40,000 pounds of meat to the plant in Wisconsin but never showed up to the delivery site. Police soon uncovered the fact that the wily—and apparently hungry—thief had used a fake ID to pick up the delivery, and the company information on the tractor trailer was “fraudulent,” according to a report by the [_Associated Press_](http://www.cbsnews.com/news/20-tons-of-beef-burgled-in-pennsylvania-meat-plant-heist/ "undefined"). The thief got away with an estimated $110,000 worth of beef. While most food theft is on a much smaller scale, this meat thief is not alone in his crime. Earlier this month [it was reported](http://time.com/money/4099524/meat-beef-prices-stealing-theft/ "undefined") that meat is currently the top item stolen by shoplifters in America, due in part to rapidly rising prices. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4130759/milwaukee-wisconsin-meat-stolen/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4130759/milwaukee-wisconsin-meat-stolen/"},"headline":"Someone Stole 40,000 Pounds of Hamburger Meat from Milwaukee","datePublished":"2015-12-01T19:27:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:27:14.709Z","description":"An estimated $110,000 worth of beef","url":"https://time.com/4130759/milwaukee-wisconsin-meat-stolen/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Crime","Agriculture","Business topic","meat","farm","burgers"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Locker","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4130759/milwaukee-wisconsin-meat-stolen/","name":"Someone Stole 40,000 Pounds of Hamburger Meat from Milwaukee"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Are Vegetarian Diets Healthy?","description":"Going vegetarian can be healthful, but simply shunning meat doesnít necessarily make a diet better for you. What else it includes and excludes is key.","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/wR8WqmQY/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2015-05-15T21:16:20.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/wR8WqmQY.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/4130759/milwaukee-wisconsin-meat-stolen/","duration":"PT2M30S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/4130759/milwaukee-wisconsin-meat-stolen/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```