Man busted for ‘hoarding $31,000 worth of stolen meat’ in freezer stash

A man was found hoarding tens of thousands of dollars worth of frozen meat purchased with stolen credit cards.

Juan Yepez-Garcia, 51, was caught with several freezers at his home in Paradise, California, stocked with boxes filled with wholesale meat and seafood estimated to be worth $31,883.79, police said.

Photos from the scene showed large white freezer boxes filled with raw, frozen meat and white shrimp with labels from Sierra Meat and Seafood in Reno, Nevada. The freezer boxes were stacked inside a makeshift shed.

The Paradise Police Department on Friday began investigating a case involving stolen credit cards used to buy meat from the wholesaler. Officers traced the deliveries to Yepez-Garcia’s address on Joseph’s Court. In an interview with police, Yepez-Garcia admitted that he be