{"id":71347,"date":"2025-11-26T23:06:50","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T23:06:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/71347\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T23:06:50","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T23:06:50","slug":"more-than-500-frozen-turkeys-meant-for-california-families-in-need-stolen-the-mercury-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/71347\/","title":{"rendered":"More than 500 frozen turkeys meant for California families in need stolen \u2013 The Mercury News"},"content":{"rendered":"

An estimated 500 frozen turkeys<\/a> \u2014 intended to feed those in need as part of a Thanksgiving giveaway \u2014 were swiped in California.<\/p>\n

The turkeys, all of which had been donated to local nonprofit U.R. Important, were stolen Sunday from a box truck<\/a>, which authorities have been unable to locate as of Tuesday, NBC News reports.<\/p>\n

Security footage is being reviewed as part of the investigation and efforts to find the vehicle and its contents, CBS News said.<\/p>\n

The organization still aims to feed 200 people for the holiday, according to founder Alexxa Oliver, who told CBS she, with the help of her kids, will be going from store to store to buy turkeys to try to replace \u201cwhat we can afford.\u201d<\/p>\n

Oliver announced the theft in a video on the foundation\u2019s Facebook page<\/a> Sunday, during which she also alerted families to Elk Lodge, which was \u201cgiving away turkeys.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe want to definitely apologize to all the families who are going to be hit by this, devastated by it,\u201d Oliver continued. \u201cThis was almost 500 turkeys that we would be distributing today. And they\u2019re all taken now. So, please, keep us in your prayers. Keep the families in your prayers.\u201d<\/p>\n

A generous good Samaritan, who is remaining anonymous, has also offered to help, and the organization annually receives donations from Temecula\u2019s Abbot Laboratories, Oliver told CBS Monday.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is just another mountain for us to climb,\u201d Oliver said, \u201cand we\u2019re gonna climb it and we\u2019re gonna conquer it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An estimated 500 frozen turkeys \u2014 intended to feed those in need as part of a Thanksgiving giveaway…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71348,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8,723,138,181,1338,100,2480],"class_list":{"0":"post-71347","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-california","8":"tag-california","9":"tag-california-headlines","10":"tag-california-news","11":"tag-crime","12":"tag-crime-and-public-safety","13":"tag-latest-headlines","14":"tag-morning-wire","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-robbery"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71347","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=71347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}