: Today In History · Horoscope 27°

Login · Register |  Contact Us · Site Help |  Place an Ad · 

Subscriber Services Home Delivery Gift Subscriptions Mail Subscriptions Bill Pay Address Change Delivery Issues Vacation Stop EZ Pay Single Copies

Police investigate fast food thefts

Thursday, October 16, 2008

Two Farmington residents were arrested Oct. 8 for an incident that takes the old phrase “having the munchies” to an entire new level.

Police were tipped off and caught two people, a 28-year-old female and 29-year-old male, eating fast food at a local restaurant. The two had apparently spent several hours going from restaurant to restaurant claiming they were needing refunds or “make goods” on orders which contained mistakes which had previously been ordered by a group of workers at a local residential care facility.

“The woman was an employee of the care facility, at least at that time,” Chief of Police Rick Baker said. The two people would walk into a restaurant and explain that they needed a refund or food to rectify an order being messed up in previous days. The scam came back to bite the duo when they claimed a mistake on a special order of food only days earlier. The restaurant checked their records and could find no such order record.

The couple were sitting in the 13th restaurant they targeted and were eating when the police walked in and arrested them. Both now face several charges of misdemeanor stealing. Searches subsequent to their arrest turned up a controlled substance and drug paraphernalia. They also face charges on the drug counts as well.

The names have not been released at this time pending the filing of formal charges.