{"id":70181,"date":"2025-11-26T04:06:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T04:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/70181\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T04:06:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T04:06:11","slug":"hundreds-of-frozen-turkeys-meant-for-holiday-giveaway-are-stolen-in-california-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/70181\/","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds of frozen turkeys meant for holiday giveaway are stolen in California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A box truck with hundreds of frozen turkeys that were to be used in a holiday giveaway was stolen in Southern California, officials said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The truck has not been recovered, the Riverside County Sheriff\u2019s Office said in a statement Tuesday that did not identify any possible suspects.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The sheriff\u2019s office said deputies learned of the incident shortly before 8 a.m. Sunday when they responded to a report of the stolen truck in Lake Elsinore, a city of roughly 73,000 southeast of Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Deputies searched for the truck but were unable to find it, the sheriff\u2019s office said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Alexxa Oliver, founder of the Lake Elsinore-based nonprofit U.R. Important, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/losangeles\/news\/lake-elsinore-nonprofit-stolen-truck-frozen-turkeys\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:told CBS Los Angeles;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">told CBS Los Angeles <\/a>that the truck contained turkeys for a Thanksgiving giveaway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/reel\/865155859520913\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:video statement on its Facebook page;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">video statement on its Facebook page<\/a>, Oliver said she wasn&#8217;t sure when the theft occurred. She said the group had intended to distribute the nearly 500 turkeys that were taken Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cWe want to apologize to all of the families who are going to be hit by this,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This article was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/hundreds-frozen-turkeys-meant-holiday-giveaway-are-stolen-california-rcna245983\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:NBCNews.com;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">NBCNews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A box truck with hundreds of frozen turkeys that were to be used in a holiday giveaway was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70182,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[41334,7,9,8,41335,41332,41333,8751,1009],"class_list":{"0":"post-70181","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-california","8":"tag-box-truck","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-california-headlines","11":"tag-california-news","12":"tag-cbs-los-angeles","13":"tag-frozen-turkeys","14":"tag-holiday-giveaway","15":"tag-lake-elsinore","16":"tag-southern-california"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70181","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=70181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70181\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}