Florida police recovered a stolen Krispy Kreme delivery van full of dozens of doughnuts, and put the doughnuts to good use by giving them to the homeless.
According to The Miami Herald, the delivery van was reported stolen from a Krispy Kreme location in Lake City, Florida, on Tuesday morning and was recovered by a police officer on patrol in the city of Clearwater, nearly 200 miles away.
“There were no keys inside, but there were plenty of doughnuts,” Clearwater Police Department spokesperson Rob Shaw told ABC News.
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The store manager of the Krispy Kreme was unable to retrieve the van immediately, so he gifted the doughnuts in the van to the officers. The officers saved a few doughnuts for themselves, but gifted the rest to a homeless feeding event that took place next to police headquarters.
The feeding event offers food several times a week to homeless individuals.
“One of the things that we always try to live out in the police department is that we’re community champions,” Shaw said. “We like to do things for all parts of the community. This was just a way to help some of those people who were in need, and to make sure all of those doughnuts didn’t go to waste.”
Police did not add if any arrests had been made in the case of the stolen van, or if any powered fingerprints were left behind from the powered jelly doughnuts.