{"id":412915,"date":"2026-07-26T15:24:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T15:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/412915\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T15:24:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T15:24:11","slug":"despicable-thieves-steal-1k-of-meat-from-california-restaurant-that-closed-over-life-threatening-wildfire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/412915\/","title":{"rendered":"Despicable thieves steal $1K of meat from California restaurant that closed over life-threatening wildfire"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thieves in Northern California stole nearly $1000 worth of meat and cheese from a restaurant that closed early as a devastating fire spread this week.<\/p>\n

Da Boccery, located at 175 E Vineyard Avenue in Livermore, shut its doors Tuesday as the Little Fire<\/a> spread through the area, prompting safety concerns and evacuations.<\/p>\n

But when employees returned, they discovered thieves had used the emergency situation as a chance to break in and raid the restaurant’s supplies.<\/p>\n

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Da Boccery in Livermore Instagram\/@daboccery<\/p>\n

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The restaurant and bar serves burgers Instagram\/@daboccery<\/p>\n

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Evacuations were ordered Anadolu via Getty Images<\/p>\n

“Between myself and our owner, we decided to close early for the safety of the staff and guests. We come to find out that next day that at 7:30 p.m., somebody had cut the bolt to our back gate, come in and helped themselves to a case of our burgers and tri-tip,” the general manager Mitchell Bryant told CBS.<\/a><\/p>\n

The thieves reportedly walked away with a stash of restaurant food, including expensive cuts of meat and cheese, leaving staff frustrated after the business had already been hit by the disruption of the wildfire.<\/p>\n

“Then, he returned around 10:30 with a friend to take four more cases of burgers, some bacon, and some cheese,” he continued.<\/p>\n

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Da Boccery has an arcade and an axe-throwing activity section Instagram\/@daboccery<\/p>\n

Bryant, being an optimist, said he would like to think that “he’s trying to feed a family or got some other personal problems.”<\/p>\n

The crime is classified as a felony, as any stolen property valued over $950 <\/a>clears the threshold for grand theft.<\/p>\n

The investigation is ongoing, according to the Livermore Police Department.<\/p>\n

Da Boccery<\/a> is a bar and restaurant that has golf simulators, axe throwing activities, and arcades.<\/p>\n

It was one of several local restaurants forced to adjust its hours after the Little Fire burned more than 1,000 acres.<\/p>\n

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Little Fire near Pleasanton, CA REUTERS<\/p>\n

The Little Fire has been 85% contained, but one firefighter has been injured, after starting in Alameda County on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Meat has been a hot item in California. Recently, a supermarket in San Jose placed packages of ground beef inside little wire cages<\/a> to thwart shoplifters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thieves in Northern California stole nearly $1000 worth of meat and cheese from a restaurant that closed early…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":412916,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8,165363,17030,165362,266,1457],"class_list":["post-412915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-da-boccery","tag-livermore","tag-meat-and-cheese","tag-northern-california","tag-restaurant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412915\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/412916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}