On Easter weekend, eating crawfish is a part of the holiday celebration.

One crawfish fan, Jude Comeaux, said "we camp every Easter and we always have crawfish every Good Friday."

Another Evangeline Parish Resident added, "oh yeah definitely, we make sure we have them."

Central Crawfish, a crawfish supplier in Ville Plate, said the holiday demand this weekend marked them as a target for robbers’.

Robert Floyd, Central Crawfish Owner, said "it's the biggest demand day of the whole year."

This morning, a central crawfish truck was packed and ready to deliver 47 sacks of crawfish to North Louisiana, but when drivers arrived at 3:30 Friday morning...there were no crawfish to be seen.

"Between the hours of 10 and 3 this morning, someone broke into the gate and also the truck,” Floyd said.

The thieves broke into a truck identical to this one, once they broke the lock; they swung open the door and started unloading.

"It's definitely going to take a toll on the rest of my orders," Floyd said.

The stolen crawfish was worth almost three thousand dollars, something that Floyd wasn't prepared to loose.

"That’s, that's something that you won't get back, it's a loss that we will just have to do our best to absorb," he said.

His plan now is to ramp up security.

"We're going to install cameras and an alarm system, you know, do what we can," he said.

Floyd says he wants to make crawfish suppliers aware that robbers are on the prowl, so that no one else becomes a victim.

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