5 charged in string of butter and ghee thefts in Waterloo region

Kate Bueckert · CBC News

· Posted: Apr 09, 2025 9:01 AM EDT | Last Updated: 29 minutes ago

Five radical person been charged aft much than $8,000 worthy of food and ghee was stolen from market stores successful Cambridge, Kitchener and Waterloo.

Police accidental 15 thefts occurred betwixt September 2024 and February of this year. 

Police accidental 4 radical from Brampton — a 38-year-old man, a 32-year-old man, a 25-year-old woman, and a 24-year-old man — and a 29-year-old man from Caledon have been charged with theft nether $5,000.

The Waterloo Regional Police Service says they're besides looking to talk to 2 different people, a pistillate and a man, arsenic portion of their probe into a theft from a Cambridge market store successful February.

Waterloo portion is not the lone country to study food thefts. Police successful Guelph, Brantford and Peel Region person besides reported a fig of food thefts.

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Sylvain Charlebois, a Dalhousie University prof who studies nutrient distribution, told CBC News that on with it being "particularly easy" to resell, food besides freezes good for a agelong time, which tin make it a blistery commodity for thieves. 

Butter retail prices have changeable up successful caller years. For example, a brick sold for $4.20 connected mean successful Ontario successful August 2020, according to Statistics Canada. A ceramic present sells for betwixt $5 and $8, depending connected the store.

Anyone with accusation is asked to interaction constabulary oregon Crime Stoppers.