By JAMIE SCHRAM
June 17, 2008
A cook at Brooklyn's famed Junior's Restaurant was charged with larceny yesterday after co-workers caught him with 15 frozen lobster tails stuffed down his pants and into bandages around his legs, cops said.
Prep cook Raymundo Flores, 40, was spotted in a walk-in freezer by colleague Adam Marks, allegedly taking lobster tails and stuffing them under the bandages early Sunday afternoon. After Marks alerted co-worker Joe Hanson, both men stopped Flores and called 911.
Police arrived and found the 15 tails hidden on Flores, whom they arrested.
Authorities said that staff at Junior's - where twin lobster tails sell for $29.95 - had recently noticed lobster tails missing from the freezer.
Flores, a Manhattan resident, was freed without bail after being arraigned yesterday in Brooklyn Criminal Court on charges of petit larceny and criminal possession of stolen property. He also lost his job.
