Dubuque man convicted for buying stolen meat

Federal prosecutors say a jury found a 66-year-old Dubuque man guilty of buying meat and meat products that had been stolen from interstate shipments.

Prosecutors said the jury convicted Donald Herbst Sr. on Friday in federal court in Cedar Rapids after a more than four-day trial. Authorities say he was found guilty on nine counts of buying and possessing the meat products and one count of conspiring to buy and possess the meat. He was acquitted on one count.

Authorities accuse Herbst of reselling the Farmland Inc. meat products that were stolen from shipments that originated from the Americold Freezer Services warehouse in East Dubuque, Ill. Prosecutors say Farmland lost more than $187,000 of meat products.

Sentencing for Herbst has yet to be set.