Sticky-fingered thieves stole a Krispy Kreme truck chock-full of doughnuts early Tuesday morning in Philadelphia.
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Police were called to the Royal Farms gas station in the city's Frankford neighborhood on Tuesday around 5:30 AM, according to 6abc. The truck driver stopped at the store to make a delivery when the doughnut truck was taken, the media outlet noted.
The driver tracked the vehicle to the 1300 block of East Erie Avenue in Kensington, where police located and recovered it, police said.
Before abandoning the vehicle, thieves treated themselves to a few sweet treats. Police stated that an unknown quantity of doughnuts and an iPhone were snatched from the vehicle.
No arrests have been made.
The Krispy Kreme truck theft was not the only pastry-based robbery in recent weeks.
Uber Investigates Massive Pastry Theft
An Uber driver was accused of stealing thousands of dollars' worth of cinnamon rolls instead of delivering the baked goods as planned.
Florida-based bakery Roll & Dough addressed the dessert theft on TikTok, claiming that the Uber driver stole roughly $3000 worth of cinnamon rolls headed towards a farmer's market that they were attending.
"Normally, I don't get very angry. But today was the first day in my life that I think I ever got so angry to the point where I just wanted to sit down. Just sit in the sun and cry," one of the bakery owners, Julie Pierre, said in the viral TikTok.
Pierre also expressed frustration over not receiving her full $205 refund on the delivery. The baker said she only received a $100 partial refund from Uber.
"I was still charged $100 for something that was never delivered," Pierre said. "This money quite literally pays for my payroll. It pays for the kitchen that we're using. And the bakery that we're also in the process of building out."
Pierre later revealed that she pressed charges against the driver and that Uber eventually processed a full refund.
Uber addressed the theft in a statement to Axios.
"The report is very troubling, and not the experience we want users to have. We're continuing to look into this so we can take appropriate action."
The company has removed the driver's access to the app as it investigates the incident.
