It was in the morning that the company Krone Fleet Danmark discovered that a semi-trailer with 19 butter-filled containers – equivalent to 24 tons of butter – was missing. It reports Danish TV2.
The crime took place in Herning, Denmark, and now the police are grappling with a series of questions. How do you steal a truck full of 24 tons of butter? How to store it? And what to do with all the butter?
– Someone has been planning it for some time, says Henning Præstegård, who is a police assistant in Herning, to TV2.
Must have been carefully planned
Stealing large quantities of dairy products is not an everyday crime.
– It is unusual in those quantities. It happens that a package of butter is stolen in the supermarket, says the police assistant, and continues:
– You have to know that that particular trailer contained butter, and how to handle it in those quantities.
Looking for witnesses
After the theft was discovered in the morning, and a police report was made on Tuesday morning, the refrigerated transport was found in Ølgod, roughly five kilometers away. It was then empty. The butter thief must have overloaded the coolers.
Police are looking for witnesses who may have seen a truck with a cooling system in the area.
– You don’t just drive with 24 tons of butter in a passenger car. Maybe some have seen a truck – and preferably one with a cooling system, says Henning Præstegård.