{"id":454781,"date":"2026-09-05T19:40:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T19:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/454781\/"},"modified":"2026-09-05T19:40:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T19:40:11","slug":"pabst-offers-20000-reward-after-1602-cases-of-beer-stolen-in-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/454781\/","title":{"rendered":"Pabst offers $20,000 reward after 1,602 cases of beer stolen in California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(TNND) \u2014 Pabst Brewing Co. is putting up to <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.com\/US\/pabst-blue-ribbon-offers-20k-reward-information-after\/story?id=136175635\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">$20,000<\/a> on the line as it tries to track down a massive shipment of beer <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.com\/US\/pabst-blue-ribbon-offers-20k-reward-information-after\/story?id=136175635\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">stolen<\/a> from a Southern California distribution center.<\/p>\n<p>The theft involved 1,602 cases of Pabst Blue Ribbon and nonalcoholic Old Milwaukee beer taken Aug. 17 from an Anheuser-Busch distribution center in Montclair, California, about 40 miles east of Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the beer was stolen in two separate incidents on the same day.<\/p>\n<p>In the first incident, police said about $45,000 worth of beer headed to Tucson, Arizona, was picked up but never delivered. About an hour later, police said someone using fake documents from a purported subcontracting company picked up another roughly $25,000 worth of beer.<\/p>\n<p>Altogether, the stolen load weighed about 40,000 pounds and was valued at approximately $70,000.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@pabstblueribbon\/video\/7680932667805797662\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">post on TikTok<\/a>, Pabst CEO Greig DeBow said the company wants the beer returned by Sept. 9. The company is offering up to a $20,000 reward for new information that leads to the recovery of the stolen beer.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information can contact the company at<a href=\"https:\/\/idahonews.com\/news\/nation-world\/hotline@pabst.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> hotline@pabst.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The theft follows other high-profile food heists, including recent thefts of oysters, lobster and crabmeat in New England and more than 413,000 KitKat bars stolen in Europe.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(TNND) \u2014 Pabst Brewing Co. is putting up to $20,000 on the line as it tries to track&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":454782,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8],"class_list":["post-454781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454781","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=454781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/454782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}