GRANT COUNTY, Ind. — A Grant County investigation into a massive cryptocurrency theft also stopped the theft of a huge amount of frozen turkeys. 

According to the Grant County Sheriff’s Office, on Oct. 2 they got a report that $700,000 of “Bitcoin machines” had been stolen from “Your Choice Ever Best,” which is a Bitcoin mining company. 

Bitcoin mining is the process of making new Bitcoin tokens and listing them on the blockchain.

The computers that do that work are powerful and expensive. Deputies determined the stolen computers had been sent to the Chicago area. They conducted an undercover operation, with police help from Marion and Chicago. 

Two thousand machines were recovered, but police also made another discovery: a plan to steal $75,000 in frozen turkeys. The USDA estimates frozen turkeys will go for $1.57 a pound come Thanksgiving, which would mean this theft may have involved more than 47,000 poundsof frozen turkey. 

The Grant County sheriff also says the crime involved an “international criminal participant,” and that the investigation is on going. 

No arrests have been made.