Stolen cheese worth $70000 recovered in Milwaukee

The heist took place at D&G Transportation, a Germantown-based trucking company that handles nationwide freight for the food industry.

The trailer was later found in the Milwaukee area, but it was empty, police note, and now investigators are doing their best to try and recover the stolen cheese.

Police said it was 54 feet long, white with a red stripe and D&G logo, and had a license plate number of 671-552. The trailer displayed Wisconsin registration 671552.

Thieves made off with plenty of cheddar after swiping a trailer filled with $70,000 worth of cheese, officials said. A trailer full of locally made cheese was set to be delivered at stops around the nation. Police haven’t established a connection between the two thefts yet, according to CBS58.com.

According to WKOW, the same thing happened last week when approximately $90,000 worth of parmesan cheese went missing from a storage facility in Marshfield, Wis. The cheese was destined for Belgium, Ill., but never arrived at its destination, Larson said. And if the cheese is found in either of the cases, it can not be sold for human consumption. Federal law says that at that point the cheese becomes inedible.