Thousands of gallons of cooking oil stolen; 21 indicted
RALEIGH — For roughly five years, a band of 21 conspirators stole thousands of gallons of used cooking oil, hauling off an estimated $3.9 million worth of valuable “yellow grease” from restaurants scattered over three states, according to a federal indictment unsealed in Raleigh Thursday.The thefts stretched across North Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia, and involved pumping the oil out of restaurant storage tanks and transporting it inside box trucks, the indictment said. […]
