‘Where’s my truck?:’ Half a million frozen shrimp worth over $300K was headed to Costco before ‘unusual’ theft, police say

Shrimp theft

Thieves stole a trailer tractor with 500,000 pounds of shrimp inside, cops say. (Middlesex police).

A thief came up with quite the catch in a brazen theft in New Jersey.

According to the Middlesex Police Department, a truck driver reported his shipment of some 500,000 frozen shrimp worth about $305,000 stolen around 4 a.m. on Sept. 5. The shipment was reportedly headed to a Costco store in Monroe Township.

The driver told police he had rented a parking space on Smalley Avenue, but when he went to make the delivery, the 25,000-pound shipment and the $50,000 tractor-trailer were nowhere to be found.

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Philadelphia NBC affiliate WCAU interviewed the truck driver, who declined to be identified.

“When I came into the yard I don’t see my truck,” he said. “I don’t understand what happened. Where’s my truck?”

Detectives also determined that four other shipping containers at the warehouse had been broken into but nothing was taken.

Cops eventually found the shrimp shipment about 16 miles away in Perth Amboy, Seafood Source trade publication reported. It’s not clear if the theft was targeted to steal the shrimp or something else. No more information was released.

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