Federal task force busts 13 in $250,000 Memphis chicken heist

A federal-local task force arrested 13 people after catching them unloading a stolen $250,000 shipment of chicken from a tractor-trailer behind a Memphis hotel, uncovering guns and drugs in the process.

The Memphis Safe Task Force was serving an aggravated robbery warrant on Javunte Johnson, 33, when officers found him and 12 others pulling pallets of poultry off an 18-wheeler in the parking lot of an Economy Inn.