Two New Jersey men allegedly used a rental box truck Monday to steal cooking oil from a restaurant in Lehigh County, and authorities are asking other businesses that may have had oil stolen to contact them.<\/p>\n
The two men, ages 41 and 34, stole the oil from the Outback Steakhouse at 800 N. Krocks Road in Lower Macungie Township, according to a state police news release. Both men are charged with misdemeanors of theft and possessing instruments of crime.<\/p>\n
The men were sent to Lehigh County Jail on $5,000 bail.<\/p>\n
Any other businesses that may have had their oil stolen are asked to contact Trooper Anthony Chidiac at 610-395-1438.<\/p>\n
Cooking oil thefts are on the rise, thanks to its use in biodiesel production.<\/a> In June, Hellertown police responded to an oil spill<\/a> across several roads, that they said was caused when oil thieves\u2019 equipment malfunctioned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two New Jersey men allegedly used a rental box truck Monday to steal cooking oil from a restaurant…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":263269,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,202,182,139,432],"class_list":["post-263268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-top-stories-tmc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}