While it isn't quite a $50 million diamond heist, stealing $100,000 in beer is a pretty impressive trick—if you can get away with it. Which a gang in the Bronx did not, in the end, do, according to police. Guess the gang didn't mind Anheuser-Busch InBev's allegedly watered down beers!
DNAinfo reports that last week an Anheuser-Busch warehouse security guard and a crew of five people (three men and two women) were arrested in the Bronx after the beer giant became suspicious of "out of whack" late-night inventories. Upon further inspection bosses noticed that things were going missing on nights when Charles Dandrea, 52, was on duty. Further, they noticed that cameras on the Hunts Point warehouse door were being moved the nights that things were going missing:
The security director then alerted the 41st Precinct, which set up a surveillance post on Feb. 23.
Sure enough, a U-Haul van rolled up to the warehouse about 1:15 a.m. Sunday Feb. 24 and the pack of thieves set about stocking it with beer, Rivera said.
When cops swooped in to arrest Dandrea and his posse — made up of three men and two women — they also found six bags of marijuana in the front seat of the van, criminal complaints show.
The crew arrested included Doreen Carroll, 50, Jason Derico, 37, Stephen Garcia, 33, Anthony Lacen, 27, and Susan Muccio, 31.
They have all been charged with petty and grand larceny. Each could face up to 15 years in prison if convicted of the second-degree grand larceny charge, according to the Bronx District Attorney’s office.
Over the course of six different nights between November 2012 and February police say the crew hauled off thousands of dollars worth of beer and non-alcoholic drinks. Perhaps the alleged beer robbers were just doing their part to stop the impending InBev beer monopoly?
