Restaurant: 500 tacos for information about robbery
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RIGHAM CITY -- Bounty hunters are usually the only ones drooling about reward offers, but a local restaurant owner has an offer that could get anyone's salivation started.
Joe Cottam, owner of Melina's Fine Mexican Restaurant in Brigham City, is offering 500 tacos for information leading to the arrest of a person who stole about $3,000 sometime from April 21 to 23.
Someone broke through a glass door of the restaurant, at 40 W. 700 South, and stole cash and checks that had been prepared for deposit, but not been taken to the bank, Cottam said. It was all the earnings for the entire weekend.
"We're offering a food reward because all the cash got taken," he said.
If someone receives the reward, it will consist of some type of certificate that can be redeemed for the tacos, Cottam said.
With each taco priced at more than $2 on the menu, the reward is worth about $1,200, he said.
Cottam said he learned of the burglary the morning of April 24, and notified Brigham City Police. Such a burglary has not happened previously, he said.
He is concerned that some personal checks were stolen in the burglary, Cottam said. He said anyone who may have used a check to pay for food at the restaurant between April 19 and 24 can call with their concerns. The restaurant's phone number is (435) 723-6000.
Anyone with information about the burglary or questions about stolen checks is asked to call Brigham City Police, (435) 734-6650 or Brigham City Tip-a-Cop, at (435) 723-1244.
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