A Brooklyn woman who dishes out her family’s cuisine from a food truck has a bitter taste in her mouth after someone made off with her wheels. NY1′s Mahsa Saeidi filed the following report.
The trucks being targeted weren’t the new posh, hip, upscale boutiques roaming the area like Kogi Truck or the Grilled Cheese Truck — they would certainly alert the cops of that shady business — but instead were the small mom-and-pop taco trucks that serve the workers at construction sites during lunch hour.
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Los Angeles Daily News reports the individuals under arrest stand accused of “shaking down owners and operators over a five-year period beginning in July 2007.
The alleged gang members are accused of targeting food truck owners and demanding rent to operate the trucks in Hollywood.
The Crime & Safety blog reports on inspections of South Florida dining spots each week as the state pursues its goal to review Florida’s 45,000 licensed restaurants twice each year.
Driver clipped the Cheese Louise food truck parked in the lot before barreling into a table where the victim –18-year-old
Four food trucks have either been stolen or broken into in the last two weeks.
A woman snatched a money bag from the front seat of a burrito truck
