Suspected Florida cinnamon roll bandit wasn’t a thief — he was detained by immigration agents, bakery says

The case of an Uber courier accused of disappearing with thousands of dollars’ worth of cinnamon rolls in South Florida has taken a turn.

The case of an Uber courier accused of disappearing with thousands of dollars’ worth of cinnamon rolls in South Florida has taken a turn.

Julie Pierre, founder of South Florida-based viral bakery business Roll and Dough, initially believed the driver she hired to deliver 400 cinnamon rolls to a farmers’ market took off with the pastries after they never made it to their destination on Saturday.

The 21-year-old took to social media on Thursday to say that she finally got the real story.

“Based on the limited information available to us at the time, we believed our cinnamon rolls had been stolen,” Roll and Dough said in a statement posted on Instagram. “Uber instructed us to file a police report, so we followed their guidance.”

“We did not know that the carrier, Ivan, had been detained by immigration authorities during the delivery,” the statement continued.