Authorities are investigating a bizarre overnight break-in at Moreau’s Fine Meats, a long-established butcher shop in Paramount, Level Four, after employees arrived to find the store ransacked—but with no cash or valuables stolen. Instead, the intruder appeared to have carefully rearranged every cut of meat in the display cases into intricate spirals and concentric circles.
Eye witness accounts, which police describe as “inconclusive but unsettling,” tell of a tall, thin figure entering the shop at approximately 2:40 AM. The suspect—whose face remained obscured at all times despite multiple witnesses—moved with unnatural precision, methodically emptying the coolers and reorganizing the inventory into what one officer called “a deliberate but incomprehensible pattern.” The intruder then reportedly stood motionless in the center of the shop for thirteen minutes before exiting through the back alley.
Owner Henrik Moreau expressed shock at the event. “They didn’t take anything. Not a single lira, not even the cash in the register,” he said. “They just… made art out of my inventory. The beef, the pork, even the fish—it’s like they were arranging it for a banquet that never happened.”
Detectives are investigating possible connections to similar incidents reported in the past year, including a case at a bakery in Longfellow, where a masked individual broke in and stacked loaves of bread into a towering, free-standing arch before vanishing. The LLA has also been consulted due to potential sigil-like formations found in the pattern of the meat.
Anyone with information about the break-in is urged to contact Lovat PD.