Nut Theft Ring Cracked

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Thieves who made off with more than $1.7 million in nuts were apprehended recently when a suspicious ware house owner noticed large numbers of squirrels lurking outside one of his rented spaces.

Okay, really he noticed the perpetrators repackaging nuts for shipment, but you have to think that the squirrels were probably onto them long before that.

The thieves were responsible for a veritable wave of nut-crime, regularly breaking into nut processors and hauling off entire trailorfulls of nuts. They then apparently repackaged the nuts and sold them; since one of the gang owned an import/export business, the source of the nuts was not being questioned by the buyers.

Since only about $400,000 worth of nuts (approximately 136,000 pounds) were recovered, it seems that the culprits had already managed to unload quite a few nuts, and had a really successful crime spree going on. I mean, who stops a truckful of nuts and asks to see proof of purchase?

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