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By Bob Vosseller

OCEAN BEACH – You can have your cake and eat it too, but you have to pay for it first.

Four men were reminded of that recently when they were identified as stealing a full sheet of crumb cake from the Colonial Bakery’s Sunset Manor location on Route 35 and Joseph Street, in Ocean Beach.

The bakery’s crumb cake is pretty popular but owners Alli Kerry and Patrick O’Neil hardly expected a gang of cake thieves to enter their establishment and steal a freshly baked sheet of it on the morning of July 16.

The crumb cake crooks were eventually identified thanks to input from social media as the owner’s posted surveillance video of the caper a day after the heist. It shows the thieves opening a door and taking the sheet of crumb cake (which they have since paid for).

The video that can be viewed at facebook. com/watch/?v=287586027095980. It also reveals the faces of two men who peered in, opened a screen door and then proceeded to take the cake. A third man, possibly a look out, was observed in the background filming the dastardly deed while a fourth bakery bandit was also seen, according to the owners of the bakery.

The bakery sought the help of the public seeking answers as to who the confectionary criminals were and how they should pay for their heinous crime.

One option proposed was to make them eat an entire pan of crumb cake at one sitting. Many social media responders recommended they file a report with local police.

A plea deal came about after the men were identified. Colonial Bakery’s owners told them to come back to the scene of the crime and pay for the cake. That plus posting a public apology video. If they did that, the owners wouldn’t press charges.

On the morning of July 19, the owners posted

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