Donations to food bank in Minneapolis stolen

Published 9:30 am Tuesday, December 20, 2011

MINNEAPOLIS — A Minneapolis food pantry is scrambling to feed nearly 200 families after more than 1,500 pounds of donations were stolen.

Just days before its annual giveaway, police say a person who volunteered to transport the food from a staging area to the Camden Promise Food Shelf at Gethsemane Lutheran Church drove away with the donations.

The Rev. Jeff Nehrbass tells said it’s difficult to understand “how a person can go from helping to taking.”

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Police say no arrests have been made.