Authorities in Idaho are seeking a truck driver who held 37,000 pounds of frozen chicken for ransom demanding money for expenses before he let it rot at a truck stop in Montana where it is releasing putrid odours and liquids.
The refrigerated semi-trailer containing the chicken was to arrive in Washington state last month.
The shipment was arranged by an Idaho trucking firm that got into a dispute with its driver, who tried to extort money to deliver the load before abandoning it, said Joe Ramirez, detective sergeant with the police department in Nampa, Idaho.