{"id":70533,"date":"2025-11-26T10:27:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T10:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/70533\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T10:27:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T10:27:11","slug":"thief-steals-thanksgiving-turkeys-meant-for-hundreds-of-needy-families","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/70533\/","title":{"rendered":"Thief steals Thanksgiving turkeys meant for hundreds of needy families"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Hundreds of Thanksgiving turkeys intended for hungry families are missing after a thief made off with a box truck filled with the frozen birds in Lake Elsinore, officials said. <\/p>\n<p>Members of the nonprofit U.R. Important Foundation were sorting food Saturday morning in the 31000 block of Auto Center Drive when someone took off with the truck, according to police and published reports. The turkeys were intended to be distributed to needy families. <\/p>\n<p>Riverside County sheriff\u2019s deputies responded to the location at 7:52 a.m. and searched the area but could not find the truck, said department spokesman Sgt. Robert Martinez. <\/p>\n<p>The truck contained 475 frozen turkeys and 61 vegan turkeys, <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/losangeles\/news\/lake-elsinore-nonprofit-stolen-truck-frozen-turkeys\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CBSLA reported<\/a>. The nonprofit\u2019s founder, Alexxa Oliver, told the station that the situation is difficult, but she\u2019s maintaining a positive outlook despite the setback. <\/p>\n<p>The U.R. Important Foundation, based in Lake Elsinore, was founded in 2009 with a mission to support military families and others in need. The turkey giveaway is one of the group\u2019s signature programs, according to its <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.urimportantfoundation.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">website<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not upset or angry,\u201d Oliver told the station. \u201cThis is just another mountain for us to climb. And we\u2019re going to climb it. We\u2019re going to conquer it.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hundreds of Thanksgiving turkeys intended for hungry families are missing after a thief made off with a box&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70534,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[41579,41334,41582,16305,4915,48,52,51,8751,47,50,49,41581,41576,41578,1594,10773,15437,41577,8041,41580],"class_list":["post-70533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-alexxa-oliver","tag-box-truck","tag-cbsla","tag-founder","tag-hundred","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-lake-elsinore","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-military-family","tag-needy-family","tag-nonprofit-u-r-important-foundation","tag-other","tag-riverside-county-sheriff","tag-station","tag-thanksgiving-turkey","tag-thief","tag-vegan-turkey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70533","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=70533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70533\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}