Thieves Make Off With 20,000 Pounds Of Cheese In Wisconsin

In this photo taken on Wednesday, Aug. 5, 2015, heads of cheese are on the shelfs in a storage at John Kopiski's farm, in Krutovo village, Vladimir region, about 220 kilometers (some 140 miles) east of Moscow, Russi... In this photo taken on Wednesday, Aug. 5, 2015, heads of cheese are on the shelfs in a storage at John Kopiski's farm, in Krutovo village, Vladimir region, about 220 kilometers (some 140 miles) east of Moscow, Russia. Russia has marked the one-year anniversary of its ban on Western agricultural products with an order to destroy contraband food, a move that has raised controversy amid the nation's economic downturn. Farmers like Kopiski backed the Kremlin ban on Western food, hoping to expand their production to fill the market niche which previously had been occupied by imported food. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko) MORE LESS
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OAK CREEK, Wis. (AP) — It’s a caper of grand proportion in a state that loves its cheddar.

Police in southeastern Wisconsin say 20,000 pounds of cheese has vanished. The cheese, produced by U.S. Foods, was in a semitrailer parked at a business in the Milwaukee suburb of Oak Creek when it went missing Thursday.

Police say the semi driver was transporting the load from Green Bay to the New York City area and unhitched the trailer to run an errand. When he returned, the trailer and $46,000 worth of cheese was gone.

It’s not the first such heist of the legacy commodity in a state where sports fans like to wear foam wedges on their heads. A semitrailer carrying $70,000 worth of cheese was stolen from Germantown, another Milwaukee suburb, in January.

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