Hundreds of eggs were stolen last week from a store in Takoma Park, Maryland, but according to a report from the police there, investigators got a break and apparently cracked the case.
Three people were arrested and charged with theft, the police said.
The significance of many daily events may be tested by such hard-boiled questions as, “What does it have to do with the price of eggs?”
In this case, the answer remains unclear, as police gave no motive in the theft. Earlier this year, the wholesale price of eggs was reported as high as in the $8-a-dozen range. It has since declined sharply.
However the fate of the eggs taken in Takoma Park could not be learned.
It might be accurate to say that in at least one sense of the word that they were poached.
But it could not be immediately ascertained whether they were also consumed, perhaps in a deviled, scrambled or fried form. Or whether they were broken as the making of omelets requires. Or whether they had been sold, bartered, hidden or hurled through the air in glee, disgust or anger.
The whereabouts of the eggs was described last week by a police spokeswoman as “part of the investigation.”
But here is how matters unfolded last week according to the police in Takoma Park, a suburb of Washington that borders it.
Eggs were delivered Thursday morning to the back of a store on University Boulevard East but were taken by an unknown person. There were 60 dozen eggs — 720 of them — in three boxes.
Surveillance footage showed a gray automobile pull up to the business shortly after 7:20 a.m. Someone got out, loaded the boxes into the car and drove away.
The break in the case apparently came when one of the investigating officers recalled having seen a similar car in the rear of a nearby hotel on New Hampshire Avenue.
Police went to the hotel, saw the car, and learned that it had been reported stolen in the District. They mounted a watch.
At around 2 p.m., someone left a room in the hotel and got into the car. He was taken into custody immediately, according to the police account.
In all, police said they have connected a total of three people to the egg case, based on clothing and items found in the car. No information was provided about the relationship among the three, including whether one allegedly egged the others on.
Or about how the plot was allegedly hatched.
Police said the case remained under investigation.
One of the most egregious egg theft incidents anywhere in the U.S. this year occurred in February when 100,000 eggs were stolen from a distribution trailer at a store in Pennsylvania.
Around that time, wholesale egg prices of almost $8 a dozen were reported. Avian flu was blamed for egg scarcity.
Prices have since declined sharply. Retail outlets have recently advertised eggs at as little as $2 a dozen.
Meanwhile, the Pennsylvania case remains unsolved, a Pennsylvania state police spokesperson said Sunday.
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