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Hundreds of cinnamon rolls initially believed to have been stolen from a South Florida bakery have been recovered, though the bakery's owner says the incident still cost her some serious dough.
In an August 22 social media post, Julie Pierre, the owner ofRoll and Dough bakeryin Sunrise, noted that around$3,000 worthof cinnamon buns destined for a local farmer's market never arrived — putting the Uber delivery driver in the hot seat.
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"As a 21-year-old running a small business on my own, I was scared, overwhelmed and trying to recover days of work and thousands of dollars in products." Pierre, who started the baking side hustle to help pay for hercriminal justice studiesat Florida International University, added that with little explanation as to why the order was missing, Uber advised her to file a police report.
Meanwhile, her social media following — which includes hundreds of thousands of followers onInstagramandTikTok— caused the story to spread quickly.
Five days later, police found the stray cinnamon buns and discovered why they were never delivered — leaving Pierre toexclaim, simply, that "it's a little insane." Pierre added, onsocial media, that five days after the cinnamon rolls vanished, detectives informed her that the Uber driver was "detained by immigration authorities during the delivery." Law enforcement officialsconfirmed to local mediathat the driver, Ivan Dario Rico Molano of Colombia, "admitted to being in the United States without legal authorization" and was taken into custody by Customs and Border Protection.
After his arrest, the driver reportedly called someone to pick up his car — which they did, without knowledge of the delivery.
Days later, the person called local police about the sweets.
"We had to throw them all away," Pierre told theTampa Bay Timesof the returned cinnamon rolls.
Stolen or not, we suffered a loss." Neither Pierre nor Uber responded to Moneywise's request for comment, but Uber's general terms and conditions for businesses note that it bears "no liability" for "any loss, damage, non-delivery or delay in the delivery of items." Pierre didoffer an apologyon social media, though, for describing the situation as a theft, while pledging to donate a portion of her bakery's proceeds to help pay for the driver's legal counsel.
Still, the icing on the bun after all of this is that Pierre's bakery side hustle looks to be on a roll.
With her growing customer base, Pierre started aGoF.
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