Thieves targeting breakfast items during second large egg theft at Luna Park Café in Seattle due to increasing grocery costs

SEATTLE — Eggs have become an attractive target for thieves as the bird flu outbreak has sent prices to record highs.

A white van was used by two suspects in a burglary at Luna Park Café in Seattle, as shown in new surveillance video. The suspects were seen loading hundreds of dollars’ worth of eggs and other breakfast foods before fleeing the scene.

It comes as police are investigating another theft in Pennsylvania earlier this month.

Thieves got away with a hundred thousand eggs, worth approximately $40,000 at a Pete and Gerry’s Organic Eggs facility.

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“It could happen once, it could happen again,” CEO of Pete and Gerry’s Organic Eggs Tom Flocco said. “We are putting additional measures in place.”

In just the last month, more than 20 million birds have been impacted by bird flu across the country.

It has created a nationwide egg shortage as infected flocks are culled and their eggs destroyed to control the spread of the virus.

According to the CDC, there have been sixty-seven reported cases of infection in the U.S. Most of the infected individuals had direct contact with sick or dead animals. Authorities confirmed that there have been no reported cases of human-to-human transmission of the bird flu.

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