LOGAN TWP. -- Where's the beef?

That's what a local company wants to know after a shipment of meat worth $111,000 was stolen earlier this month, according to township police.

Police released this security camera image of a man who allegedly stole a truckload of beef from a Logan Township facility earlier this month. (Logan Township Police Department)

The 22,000-pound shipment, taken from Lakeside Refrigerated Services on Oldmans Creek Road, included beef tenderloin, beef skirt steak, ribeyes and beef patties, said Lt. Joseph Flatley.

A truck driver arrived at Lakeside claiming to work for a transportation company hired to transport the meat to a facility in Marlboro, Maryland, Flatley said.

When the shipment never arrived, Lakeside officials called police.

This theft was similar to a February crime at Lakeside in which lamb and beef products worth more than $100,000 were reported stolen by another phony trucker. That shipment never arrived at its intended California destination

Lakeside has implemented new security protocols since the February theft, Flatley noted.

He attributed the latest theft to two factors: Brokers who arrange shipments through trucking companies not properly vetting drivers and a lack of due diligence at the local facility.

Lakeside workers could not provide a tag number or description of the vehicle and security camera video offers limited details about the trucker, whose face is obscured by the brim of his hat.

Thefts of goods by the truckload is nothing new. Another theft occurred last November from Cargill Foods in Logan. In that case, $350,000 in frozen steaks were stolen.

What the thieves are doing is using the names of legitimate companies to pull of these thefts, Flatley explained previously.

Investigators believe drivers are using phony driver's licenses and plates when they make their pickups, then switch license plates after they leave to evade efforts to track the trucks. If they happen to be pulled over, they display their real licenses.

In this most recent case, however, the driver provided no identification, police said.

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