INDIANAPOLIS -- Police are searching for the person or persons who stole a truck from an Indianapolis food pantry and put hundreds of people at risk for not being able to get fresh food.
The Lords Pantry at Anna’s House uses a box truck to pick up fresh fruits and bread for people in need. The food then goes to people in the Stringtown Community on the city’s near west side.
That truck was stolen sometime over the weekend.
Employees last saw the truck on Saturday and when they showed up Monday morning to go pick up their food, it was gone.
“Without that truck we don’t have the ability to bring the food in, which then serves the community,” said Julie Molloy, Board Member for Lord’s Pantry & Anna’s House. “We work with about 200 families every week and look to probably serve between 800 and a thousand people who are impacted by the food that goes through these doors every day.”
The pantry was able to borrow a truck for their Monday food pickup but they are now on a week by week basis to determine how to get that food to the pantry.
The stolen truck had been donated to the Lord’s Pantry.
