An insurer is accusing a trucking company of allowing $153,000 of Dewar’s White Label Scotch to be stolen from a Bronx street in November 2011, according to a new Manhattan Supreme Court lawsuit.
A driver from New Jersey-based Big Daddy Drayage picked up a shipping container full of Scotch whisky from Port Newark on Nov. 4, the suit says.
But the liquor never made it to its Connecticut destination. Instead, the driver parked his rig and cargo on Webster Avenue in the Norwood section of The Bronx and when he returned on Nov. 7, “both the container and the chassis were gone,” court papers state.
Police investigated and found the three-axle tractor trailer, but not the booze, which retails for about $30 a bottle.
Big Daddy president Michael Gallagher said the driver was “immediately terminated.”