A pair of suspected thieves, one in every of whom allegedly stole packages of oxtails in a separate heist, have been caught this week with $500 value of meat taken from varied Houston-area grocery shops, police mentioned.
Robert Stevenson, 31, and Cornilius Davis, 32, have been taken into custody by the Rosenberg Police Division on Tuesday. Stevenson was beforehand arrested in November after he and another person have been discovered with a number of packages of oxtails from a Meals City grocery store, Fox 26 reported.
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On Tuesday, a Rosenberg police officer stopped a automobile reported stolen out of School Station and detained Stevenson and Davis, police mentioned.
“In the course of the site visitors cease, Rosenberg Officers noticed quite a few meat merchandise contained in the automobile,” a police assertion mentioned. “A complete of 18 packages of meat together with beef steaks, brisket and pork chitterlings valued over $500 have been discovered within the automobile.”
Investigators decided the meat was stolen from Houston-area grocery shops. Officers additionally discovered drug paraphernalia contained in the automobile, police mentioned.
Stevenson was arrested and charged with possession of drug paraphernalia. Davis is charged with unauthorized use of a motorized vehicle.
Stevenson was out on a $2,500 bond on the time of Tuesday’s arrest, the information report mentioned.
