Editing Moosehead Breweries (section)

== Stolen batch ==
In August 2004 a truck driver transporting over 50,000 cans of Moosehead beer to [[Mexico]] for a Mexican supermarket chain disappeared with the beer, leaving the nearly empty transport truck abandoned in a parking lot in [[Grand Falls, New Brunswick]]. Easily identified by the Spanish writing on the labels (which is not distributed in English and French speaking Canada) the beer was slowly tracked.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.505569 | work=CBC News | title=N.B. residents scour countryside for stolen beer | date=August 31, 2004}}</ref>

The first signs of the missing beer showed up in [[Fredericton, New Brunswick]], with two empty cans; another report of two cans were reported later in northern New Brunswick. Police working on a tip eventually found the truck driver in [[Ontario]]; earlier in the same week, police discovered nearly 8,000 cans of the stolen beer in a trailer that went off the road near [[Woodstock, New Brunswick]].

With most of the beer recovered and the driver in custody,<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/police-find-missing-beer-truck-driver-1.509611 | work=CBC News | title=Police find missing beer truck driver | date=August 25, 2004}}</ref> the police in the New Brunswick area began to look in wooded areas for the remaining beer. Knowing the area in which the police were looking, many civilians took up the search as well. Because of the media attention on the story almost all of the beer was quickly found by civilians and police, and most of it was returned to Moosehead Breweries.

The final piece of the story occurred in October 2004 when 200 cans of the stolen beer were found at a [[cannabis (drug)|marijuana]] growing operation in the forest near [[Doaktown, New Brunswick]] about 100 kilometres northeast of Fredericton.<ref>[http://www.doaktown.com/visitors/about-us About Us]. ''The Village of Doaktown''.</ref> "Six of the cans were discovered with bite marks in them indicating a bear had, at one point, been into the beer," the [[Royal Canadian Mounted Police|RCMP]] said in a news release. The release said there was no sign of either the animal or the people who had stashed the beer.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.469050 | work=CBC News | title=Bear breaks into stolen beer cache | date=October 22, 2004}}</ref> Eventually, after a lengthy investigation, a total of 14,000 cans were recovered. Wade Haines, a New Brunswick truck driver, was found guilty of stealing the shipment and was sentenced to 19½ months in jail.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.trucknews.com/features/east-coast-trucker-sentenced-for-stealing-moosehead-beer/ |title=East Coast trucker sentenced for stealing Moosehead beer |last=Rudolfs |first=Harry |date=1 April 2005 |website=Truck News |publisher=Newcom Media |access-date=23 January 2017 |quote=Haines claimed to have parked the trailer at his employer’s yard in Fredericton and to have driven the tractor to the Trans-Canada where he abandoned it by the side of the highway with the keys in it. He said he then hitchhiked to Ontario.}}</ref>

The unique and quirky nature of this crime story made international headlines and resulted in publicity for Moosehead; it has also been the basis of a book.