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Police in Delaware County said that they made an arrest in a very unusual crime after thieves stole cooking oil from a restaurant in Upper Darby last week.

It's a case that seems to be part of a growing trend nationally.

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It was a messy scene behind Wilson's Secret Sauce on Saturday, Sept. 20 after two men were caught on camera getting out of a box truck and taking gallons of used cooking oil from a tank behind the restaurant.

"I saw footprints from their feet all over my driveway which I keep relatively clean and I looked over at the oil tank and I saw that the lock was missing," Steve Wilson, of Wilson's Secret Sauce, said.

Upper Darby police said they arrested one of the suspects

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