Beef salesman accused of driving off with truck full of meat

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- Where's the beef?

That appeared to be the question some were asking several years ago, but authorities may have solved that mystery.

According to a criminal summons, 36-year-old Jamie Parsons was 31 in Dec. 2006, when he was employed as a sales driver for a local meat company.

Authorities say he was given a truck containing meat and a freezer and was to use that truck to sell the meat, returning at the end of the day with the truck, the unsold meat, the money made from the sales and the freezer.

Instead, Parsons is accused of driving off with the truck, abandoning it, and making off with the meat and the freezer.

The truck was found five days later.

According to court documents, Parsons sold the freezer, as well as the meat (which went for $1,800.)

It would be more than five years before the law would catch up with Parsons for this alleged crime. He was recently served a summons while in custody and is expected to appear in court for the crime on April 26.

He's charged with two counts of theft by failure to make required disposition of property.