KIRKWOOD, MO ( KPLR ) -
Slippery thieves have ripped off used cooking oil from two Kirkwood restaurants. On Monday Richard Hollins found one hundred gallons of used cooking oil was missing from two 55 gallons drums, located in the rear of his BBQ restaurant. The bandits also hit the Chinese restaurant next door, stealing nearly two hundred gallons of used cooking oil.
Kirkwood police believe the stolen cooking oil is being sold to salvage companies to later be turned into diesel fuels.
A spokesperson for a Millstadt Rendering Company in Belleville told me stealing used cooking oil is costing her company thousands of dollars a week.
Often her drivers travel perhaps as much as two hundred miles to find huge drums empty. She called it a nationwide problem, that if not checked will drive a lot of smaller salvage companies out of business.
Kirkwood police believe the stolen cooking oil is being sold to salvage companies to later be turned into diesel fuels.
A spokesperson for a Millstadt Rendering Company in Belleville told me stealing used cooking oil is costing her company thousands of dollars a week.
Often her drivers travel perhaps as much as two hundred miles to find huge drums empty. She called it a nationwide problem, that if not checked will drive a lot of smaller salvage companies out of business.
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