30 years ago…
July 30, 1976 – Hillsborough Sheriff Department detectives and Florida Beverage Department agents recover 2,532 cases of hijacked beer in a raid on a refrigerated truck parked at a Gibsonton marina. The Budweiser beer, valued at $15,000 ($51,497 in today’s dollars), was stolen on July 26 from the Wes-Flo Co., Inc., warehouse at 10050 Florida Avenue. The thieves drove the truck to Gibsonton and rented space for three months in a refrigerated truck parked near a marina on Ohio and New York Avenues. An informant, described only as a “cooperative citizen,” led the police to the cache of beer.
Courtesy of the Tampa Bay History Center.
Sandy
3 years ago
Now I know I’m old because I remember that story from high school days. We thought it was so wrong. That woman could have had a lifetime supply. Of course, that was overshadowed by the day the Coast Guard put out a coastal watch because a pot boat dumped its load, bales and bales of the evil weed, just south of Tampa. Everyone was heading to any patch of beach they knew of! Damn the 70’s were hilarious.