6,000 bottles of wine stolen from liquor store

Associated Press
Jun. 27, 2007 10:04 AM

A 79-year-old man is a suspect in the theft in Phoenix of more than 700 cases of wine reportedly worth more than $250,000. The state Department of Liquor Licenses and Control says the suspect owns the building housing the Hungarian Wholesale Liquor Store, where the thefts occurred. A 57-year-old man also has been arrested in the investigation. The liquor department says more than 6,000 bottles of wine with the Vivamus label – which it says sells for about $40 a bottle – were stolen between February and April. More than half of the stolen bottles have been recovered, and investigators are confident that they’ll also recover the rest.

Now if there were 700 cases of Rhinelander beer laying around, well…