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GARY, Ind. (AP) -- The pizzas were frozen, but they also were hot.
Indiana State police have arrested a Hammond truck driver after he tried to sell more than 13 tons of Stouffer's frozen pizzas that he was supposed to transport from a Chicago area pizza company to Utah.
After 38-year-year-old Anthony Herbert Lee ran into motor trouble and realized he wouldn't be able to make the delivery, he contacted a salvage company and tried to sell his cargo. The salvage company smelled something wrong, contacted Indiana State Police, and a detective nabbed him yesterday at a Gary truck garage.
It turns out Lee was wanted on a 10-year-old warrant out of Hobart for larceny. He's being held at the Lake County Jail.
The refrigerated trailer has been located and the pizzas recovered.
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