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Police in Delaware County said that they made an arrest in a very unusual crime after thieves stole cooking oil from a restaurant in Upper Darby last week.
It’s a case that seems to be part of a growing trend nationally.
It was a messy scene behind Wilson’s Secret Sauce on Saturday, Sept. 20 after two men were caught on camera getting out of a box truck and taking gallons of used cooking oil from a tank behind the restaurant.
“I saw footprints from their feet all over my driveway which I keep relatively clean and I looked over at the oil tank and I saw that the lock was missing,” Steve Wilson, of Wilson’s Secret Sauce, said.
Upper Darby police said they arrested one of the suspects seen in the video behind Wilson’s Secret Sauce but authorities are still looking for the second man.
Industry leaders think this problem won’t stop without stronger regulations.
The oil is supposed to be refined and then later sold as biofuel to companies across the region, but experts say that thieves make big money off the stolen cooking oil.
The owners of D&W Alternative Energy told NBC10 that they see so many thefts that they have created an online map to track them.
“We lose probably $7,000, $10,000 every week,” the owners of D&W said.
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Isabel Sanchez and Emily Rose Grassi
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