100K eggs stolen from trailer as police scramble to crack case

Police successful Pennsylvania are scrambling to ace the lawsuit aft 100,000 integrated eggs were stolen from the backmost of a trailer implicit the weekend, arsenic egg prices successful the U.S. proceed to skyrocket.

The poached eggs, estimated to beryllium worthy US$40,000 (nearly C$57,276), were successful a organisation trailer extracurricular Pete & Gerry’s Organics successful Greencastle, Pa., erstwhile idiosyncratic broke into it astir 8:40 p.m. ET connected Feb. 1, according to reports.

“We instrumentality this substance earnestly and are committed to resolving it arsenic rapidly arsenic possible,” Pete & Gerry’s said successful a statement.

An probe is underway into the huevos heist and the Pennsylvania State Police Department is urging anyone with accusation regarding the theft to telephone the Chambersburg bureau.

Police did not accidental however idiosyncratic was capable to instrumentality 100,000 eggs without anyone noticing oregon if they person immoderate imaginable leads successful the hard-boiled case.

According to the egg company’s website, Pete & Gerry’s Organic sets “a higher modular for farming practices and carnal attraction crossed an full industry,” which “doesn’t hap without ruffling a fewer feathers — we squawk the squawk and locomotion the walk.”

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The institution works with much than 200 independent, family-owned and operated farms located crossed New England, the Mid-Atlantic and Midwest.

The ovum theft comes arsenic ovum prices successful the United States proceed to rise successful price following a relentless outbreak of bird flu that is devastating poultry farms and forcing farmers to kill millions of chickens.

The mean outgo of a twelve ample eggs was US$4.15 successful December 2024, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. This marks a 37 per cent summation from the erstwhile year. Egg prices could spell adjacent higher, with the United States Department of Agriculture predicting costs to emergence 20 per cent in 2025.

—With files from Global News’ Katie Dangerfield