YIKES! 11,000 bottles of bourbon stolen!

If they show up in my neighborhood… I did some research, a relatively low cost bourbon, around $32 a bottle.

The bottles, worth about $500,000, were taken in what company officials called a “coordinated cargo theft operation carried out in broad daylight.”

It was a sunny Friday afternoon in Philadelphia when the driver of a semitrailer pulled up to a five-story, faded red brick warehouse and showed his identification.

The workers there made a copy of the ID, following procedure, and loaded up the 18 pallets of Noble Oak bourbon, containing 10,800 bottles, which were intended for commercial distribution.

But A21 Wine & Spirits, the company that owns Noble Oak, soon learned that the bourbon had not reached its destinations.

It announced on Friday that the bottles had fallen victim to “a coordinated cargo theft operation carried out in broad daylight.”

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“So the warehouse called the shipping broker, and said, ‘Hey, do you have a truck coming?’ And, of course, the answer was yes,” Mr. Koch said. “And so they just loaded up the 18 pallets and let the guy go.”

He said that he did not believe that it was an inside job and instead blamed cybercrime.

“Sometimes computer systems get taken over by another company, and what will happen is that they will pose as that company and go and pick up loads and just steal the whole thing,” Mr. Koch said. “And you don’t really know until, well, it’s all gone, right? It doesn’t show up at the destination.”