SHREWSBURY – Two men face charges after they allegedly stole used cooking oil from Lakeside Bar & Grill earlier this month.
Yordani Diaz-Campusano, 33, and Eri Carlos Alcantara, 30, both of West New York, N.J., face charges of larceny, breaking into a depository, possession of a burglarious instrument, vandalizing property and conspiracy.
According to the statement of facts filed in Westborough District Court, a Shrewsbury officer was dispatched to the area of Lakeside Bar & Grill on Route 9 at about 4:40 a.m. April 2 on the report of an oil theft in process.
The owner reportedly saw this taking place on security cameras. The owner told police a white van was stealing oil from behind the restaurant.
When police arrived, the owner told police the van left. Police said they began searching the around the nearby businesses, and one of the officers saw a white can in the Whole Foods parking lot.
Police wrote that there were two men in the van – later identified as Diaz-Campusano and Carlos Alcantara – who had oil residue and stains on their clothes. According to police, there were large, 300-gallon containers containing what police believe to be cooking oil and pumps to remove the oil from the containers.
When police checked the oil container at Lakeside Bar & Grill, the lock and clamp-style closure on the container had been forced open “with the intent to remove the used cooking oil in order to deprive the business of the used oil,” the statement of facts read.
This is the second reported cooking oil theft in recent months. Shrewsbury police arrested a pair for allegedly stealing used cooking oil from a Maple Avenue business in February.
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