Detectives Bust Thief for Stealing Nearly $300K Worth of Pistachios
  • 4 years ago
There's probably a lot of high-fiving going on in the Agricultural Crimes Unit of the Tulare County (Calif.) Sheriff's Office.Its detectives busted an "elaborate scheme" involving the theft of $300,000 worth of pistachios.Detectives were called to Setton Pistachio, where employees reported a significant theft of packaged nuts.Workers said that someone used the name of a real trucking company to pick up two tractor-trailers' worth of pistachios.Instead of fulfilling the delivery order, the pseudo-drivers sold the nuts to an unsuspecting individual.The nut thieves were eventually located because the semi-truck they'd swiped in Fresno had real-time GPS locators.Bhavna Singh Sekon, a 23-year-old Fresno man, was arrested at home, and more arrests are expected
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