More than 1,000 Pounds of Pecans Stolen From Factory

ALBANY — More than $1,000 worth of pecans were stolen from a local distributor during the New Year Holiday period, authorities said.
According to reports filed with the Albany Police Department, the owners of B&L Pecan Company on the 1300 block of West Oakridge Avenue reported that 20, 75- pound bags of pecans were stolen sometime between Sunday and Wednesday.
The bags of pecans, which are valued at 75 cents per pound, were stolen off a pallet in the storage area of the business, reports show.
Manager Vernon Gage told police that he and several workers were at the business Sunday doing inventory and that the bags were there when he left. But when he came in Wednesday, they were missing, according to the report.
A window in a bathroom in the west side of the storage building was busted out and was the probable point of entry, the report shows.
The owner, Manon Luckey, told police that he had recently fired two employees for stealing pecans and then trying to resale them back to the company, according to the report.
The report says that the names of those employees were turned over to the police and fingerprints from the area were lifted.
In total, the bags were estimated to weigh 1,381 pounds.

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