Cheese capers in Wisconsin don’t go unsolved very long

Police find stolen cheese within a week

MARSHFIELD, Wis. – Crimes across the country often go unsolved, even end up mysteries.

In Wisconsin, crimes against cheese however, get solved within the month.

Two huge cheese capers went down this month in Marshfield and Germantown, Wis.

For the second time in a week, police have recovered stolen loads of cheese worth over $160,000.

Marshfield Police Lt. Darren Larson says 41,000 pounds of parmesan cheese worth $90,000 were stolen from a Marshfield distributor Jan. 15.

A semi picked up the cheese that day, but it never reached its intended destination in Illinois. Of course, it was Illinois.

Larson says investigators received a tip Thursday that the cheese was likely in Grand Chute, Wis.

And, of course, police in Grand Chute were on top of the caper, finding the entire shipment intact and unloaded in a warehouse.

Monday, Germantown police were informed of $70,000 worth of cheddar and other cheeses stolen from a distribution center there last week.

Less than two weeks later, it was recovered in Milwaukee on Friday.

The mystery now, whether or not the cases are connected.