Biofuel bandits steal fast food grease

April 28, 2011

Soaring gasoline prices have spawned a new kind of crime in Albuquerque - grease theft, as in restaurant grease. On Monday, Albuquerque police arrested 45 year old Darin Espinosa after watching him pump grease from another company's dumpster into the grease tank on his truck. The episode occurred at Sadie's Restaurant, a popular North Valley eatery featuring New Mexico cuisine. Brian Stafford of Sadie's said the restaurant saves vegetable oil from its fryers to sell to biofuel producers, but this was from the dumpster reserved for animal fats, like grease from hamburger.