Wednesday, March 7, 2012

Man Charged With Stealing Donated Food

{West Liberty, Kentucky}...Daniel Leland, 54, was arrested Monday night at a Red Cross shelter in West Liberty and taken to the Big Sandy Detention Center on a charge of second-degree robbery after Kentucky State Police say he was posing as a Red Cross employee and trying to make off with about $150 worth of food intended for storm victims. Police say Leland went to the shelter wearing a Red Cross vest and gathered a large cache of food items, including bottled water, 13 cases of ready-to-eat military-type meals, and 10 to 15 "care packages" of food and threatened Red Cross staffers when they questioned him about taking the food. Leland claimed he was taking the food for distribution in another county. The food was recovered from Leland's van.