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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Erin Keller

Pair of teens busted in Jersey for allegedly trying to steal $273K of frozen seafood

An 18-year-old Bronx man and a juvenile were arrested for allegedly unloading frozen shrimp, salmon and other seafood from a refrigerated tractor-trailer into a 26-foot box truck in North Arlington, New Jersey - (iStock)

An apparently hungry pair were busted in New Jersey for allegedly trying to steal nearly 29,000 pounds of frozen seafood worth more than $273,000 – but their scheme quickly went belly-up.

Jonathan Pollaguari, 18, of the Bronx, New York, and an unidentified juvenile were caught October 3 unloading pallets of frozen shrimp, salmon, conch meat and branzino from a refrigerated tractor-trailer into a 26-foot box truck in North Arlington, police said in a Facebook news release.

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