I guess it was.

AP Wire | 09/01/2006 | Men who took food in trash get 6 months:

Thousands of people were in the Steamboat Springs area at the end of June and early July for the Rainbow Family gathering north of town. At times, the relationship between members of the nomadic group and authorities was tense....

So they grab these two guys and toss them in the slammer for taking veggies out of a grocery store dumpster. Six months. Pretty expensive lunch. Seems like for six months they should have got something better than cucumbers at least.