Paul Rojek, 56, and Joshua Rojek, 33, was charged with third-degree larceny and first-degree falsifying business records by the Onondaga County, according to Timem after trying to sell stolen chicken wings worth $41,000. The bail was set to $2,500.
The amount was the total ordered chicken wings that then went unaccounted for from February to the end of November. Authorities believe that the two have destroyed the receipts, authorities said.
The father-and-son duo's strategy was simple but unbelievable. They both work as cooks in the restaurant, so it was not easy to detect the theft. They would order chicken wings from a Twin Trees Too Restaurant's supplier and then pick it up the orders themselves. Afterwards, they would bill the amount to the restaurant and then sell the chicken wings on the street. "Deputies say the men billed the thousands of dollars of wing orders to the restaurant's account...," the Daily Mail reported.
Manager Dan Ross told TWC News, "I'm more bothered by the fact he would do this to my family, my family business, my father which makes it all the worse because it bothered him a lot, especially since he put so much trust in this guy and took him back in and helped him out,"
The restaurant is based in Syracuse. The restaurant owners began to suspect a possible theft after more or less 80 per cent of the chicken wings billed to Twin Trees were not accounted for in the kitchen.
Based on Australia Network News, the restaurant owners hired a private detective to investigate the matter. This was then brought further to the attention of local cops. The restaurant has since implemented measures to prevent employee theft.
"It's actually kind of funny that there's a black market for chicken wings. But the demand is that high," a prosecutor told Syracuse.
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