Lobster tails, pork belly and a $7,800 theft charge at the Biltmore, on NBC 6
Police say surveillance video caught a hotel worker in the kitchen storerooms before his shifts, and the short's comment section is arguing over whether food should bring a grand theft charge.
NBC 6 South Florida
Story of Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 98,218 views a day, 11 times a normal first day on this channel (8,624).
Biltmore Hotel worker's $7,800 kitchen theft included lobster tails, pork belly, cops say
The missing items read more like a banquet order than a police report: nearly two hundred lobster tails and well over a hundred pounds of pork belly, gone from the kitchen and storage areas of the Biltmore in Coral Gables. Police say a former worker took food worth about $7,800. According to the video's description, which cites jail records, he was arrested Monday on a charge of first-degree grand theft.
The description says the hotel's director of security and its head chef went to police after noticing that food kept disappearing. Surveillance footage, the arrest report says, showed the worker arriving before his scheduled hours and going into the areas where the missing food was kept.
The setting is part of the story. The Biltmore opened in 1926 and is a National Historic Landmark, one of the best-known buildings in South Florida, so a case about its kitchen reaches people who would skip an ordinary shoplifting report.
The short passed 46,000 views in its first eight hours. A short on this channel usually ends its whole first day under 9,000. The comments arrived even faster, roughly seven times the pace of a usual first day. Many viewers joke about the menu. Others ask how anyone forgets the cameras. A good number argue that grand theft is a heavy charge for food, and a few mention that they once stayed at the hotel or applied for a job there.
The same day, the station's report connecting a North Miami shooting, a body found on a roadside and a burned car also ran far ahead of its usual numbers. Not every strange arrest traveled as far, though: the story of a man accused of carrying ten live birds through Miami International Airport in his pants has so far reached only a few thousand viewers.
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- Channel
- NBC 6 South Florida
- Subscribers
- 627,000 ▲ 3,000 this week
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 7,335,312
- Channel views, pace per day
- 927,095 (on a normal day: 631,549)
- Video published
- October 6, 2026
- Video views so far
- 46,010 (less than a day online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 98,218
The numbers
For a news channel whose shorts usually stay in the thousands on their first day, this one started at a very different pace.
