A box truck with hundreds of frozen turkeys that were to be used in a holiday giveaway was stolen in Southern California, officials said.
The truck has not been recovered, the Riverside County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement Tuesday that did not identify any possible suspects.
The sheriff’s office said deputies learned of the incident shortly before 8 a.m. Sunday when they responded to a report of the stolen truck in Lake Elsinore, a city of roughly 73,000 southeast of Los Angeles.
Deputies searched for the truck but were unable to find it, the sheriff’s office said.
Alexxa Oliver, founder of the Lake Elsinore-based nonprofit U.R. Important, told CBS Los Angeles that the truck contained turkeys for a Thanksgiving giveaway.
In a video statement on its Facebook page, Oliver said she wasn’t sure when the theft occurred. She said the group had intended to distribute the nearly 500 turkeys that were taken Sunday.
“We want to apologize to all of the families who are going to be hit by this,” she said.
