It’s about time. Our “garbage can full of meat” tag was starting to get a bit dusty.

Backseat Full of Meat May Have Been Intended for Family Barbeque

Two men are in custody in Ogden after a routine traffic stop turned into something much more bizarre. Their entire backseat was full of meat.

The owner of Moore’s Family Restaraunt said as much as $400 worth of meat was stolen. It was then loaded in a Lexus.

Police say there was a family barbecue looming for one of the suspects. Whether that barbecue has anything to do with this is unclear right now.
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[Owner Kelly] Moore said the men grabbed one of his garbage cans, loaded it full of meat and used the can to transport the meat to the car.

(Photo: Mugshot of suspect Brian Paul Stewart)

Thanks to the dastardly meat thief William Henry Payne III, we’ve been able to dust off our old “garbage can full of meat” tag!

Dayton, Ohio Sleeps Easier After Serial Steak Thief Nabbed

As in the two previous cases, Payne allegedly first went to the housewares’ section where he took large wastebaskets with lids off the shelf. He then would go to the meat cases, fill the wastebaskets with steaks and wheel the cart out of the store, according to police.

Steele, the off-duty deputy, said he was in the store’s security office when he saw Payne running out of the store with a cart containing two large wastebaskets. “I assume there was something in those wastebaskets,” he said.

When confronted by security in the parking lot, Payne dumped the cart — spilling the packaged meat across the parking. Payne took off running, and Steele radioed a description.

10/12/09 A laptop computer and game system were stolen from an apartment on East Washington Street in Paris between Saturday night and early Sunday morning.

According to the report by Sgt. John Brewer of the Paris Police Department, the resident of the apartment said someone entered it sometime between 4:15 p.m. Saturday and about 1:30 a.m. Sunday.

Missing was a laptop valued at $600, and a video game system, $59.

The thief or thieves also took two packs of steaks and some boneless pork chops from the freezer. (Paris, TN)

10/03/09 An unidentified white male was reported to have shoplifted a package of meat from the Kroger’s in the village by “stuffing the meat in his shirt,” according to the police log. The incident happened at 9:55 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 3. There is no suspect at this time. (Proctorville, OH)

09/23/09 Police are investigating a break-in at a Corunna Road store where someone crawled in through the drive-thru window Tuesday and made off with a $700 mini-motorcycle, T-bone steaks and other miscellaneous meats. (Flint, MI)

09/17/09 Thanks to the watchful eyes of Corpus Christi water department workers, police found a man who had a garbage can filled with stolen meats and pies early Thursday.

Officers were called to the 2500 block of Leopard Street for a burglar alarm going off at a catering business. The officers said they found a detached storage unit had been broken into when they arrived at 2:06 a.m. While at the business, the water department workers told police they saw a man pushing a garbage can nearby

Police stopped the man and found it filled with meats, frozen pies and the man’s shirt. Delbert Lee Crisp, 39, was arrested and is in Nueces County jail on a $2,500 bond for burglary of a building. This is the third arrest for Crisp in Nueces County in 2009. He served 25 days for a February theft, and has a pending case that failed to appear in court for over the summer. (Corpus Christi, TX)

On a bicycle no less.  Resourceful!