Police: 2 men arrested for stealing cooking oil from 8 Nassau businesses
As News 12 has reported, there has been an uptick in cooking oil thefts across Long Island.
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Apr 13, 2023, 9:20 AM
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9h agoPolice say two men have been
arrested for stealing cooking oil from eight businesses in Nassau County.
As News 12 has reported,
there has been an uptick in cooking oil thefts across Long Island.
Police
say they caught Eduardo Gutierrez Benitez and Andres Felipe Duarte Pineda
stealing the oil from IHOP on Hillside Avenue in Williston Park on Wednesday.
The
pair is also accused of stealing oil from seven other business in Williston
Park, Garden City, New Hyde Park and Port Washington.
As
News 12 has reported, another man was arrested for stealing cooking oil from
the Chick-Fil-A in Huntington Station.
A
private investigator tells News 12 that 5,000 restaurants across Long Island have
had their cooking oil stolen in the last 10 months.
The oil can be reprocessed and sold on the black
market as renewable diesel or biodiesel fuel.
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