Burning car with smoking meat may be connected to cargo heist: Source
Oct 30, 2026
A car found burning on I-95 may be connected to Thursday's beef cargo heist, where thieves were able to get away with nearly $10,000 worth of meat
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New this morning, we have exclusive video
of yesterday's cargo truck meat heist and
exclusive new photos of a possible getaway vehicle
that may be connected with the case.
First, you can see the group of thieves drive up,
unload the boxes of meat from a parked truck in
Philadelphia's Wissahickon section.
It happened at Devereaux and Milner Streets at 4 a.m. yesterday.
Police say the thieves cut the rear padlock
and stole five pallets of frozen beef
Valued at roughly $10,000.
This is the fourth cargo theft in Philadelphia within a month.
An Action News source tells us emergency crews responded
to this burning Dodge Journey on I-95 near the Aramingo Avenue
exit just before 5 a.m. yesterday, shortly after the cargo theft.
Firefighters extinguished the flames and then...
Found piles of smoking meat inside.
More cases of meat have been thrown over the side of the highway,
landing on train tracks below.
They were the same Upper Iowa beef boxes
that were taken from the tractor trailer.
Action News has made calls to state police and Philadelphia police
to find out if anyone was taken into custody.