Three men have been arrested in Miami for their role in a multistate theft ring targeting beef and pork packaging plants, according to US Immigration and Customs Enforcement.An investigation into the ring began in June 2021 with the theft of several semitrailers containing frozen beef in Lancaster County, Nebraska, according to a news release.Together, investigators identified more than 45 thefts amounting to $9 million across Nebraska, Iowa, Minnesota, South Dakota, North Dakota, and Wisconsin, according to the release.“I think it was surprising how, how brazen and how wide scale it really was,” said Lancaster County Sheriff Terry Wagner, according to KETV.“A good reason why maybe our beef prices are higher in the grocery stores than they might have normally been, just because of the interruption in the supply chain,” Wagner said to KETV."