Tulara district police in California arrested suspected of stealing 42 thousand pounds (19050.88 kilograms) pistachios of a 34-year-old man. About this on the official district of the district police page in Facebook told sheriff.
He said that in June, the usual check in Touchstone revealed a loss of about 42 thousand pistachio pistachios. On June 17, representatives of the company appealed to the Crimination Department and asked to investigate theft. Two days later discovered a truck with pistachios on one of the parking lots, and pistachios were packaged from bags weighing 2,000 pounds (907 kilograms) in smaller bags for resale. Alberto Montamyor from Montemyor Trucking was arrested on the spot on suspicion of stealing nuts.
This is not the first case when the truck with pistachios disappears in Central California. In August 2020, another person in California was arrested and accused of stealing pistachios in the amount of more than 294 thousand dollars. In July last year, two men were falling on to the fact that they gave themselves to the drivers who drove the goods in the Alloy Middle and Pistachios. The pistachio industry is one of the significant articles of the US economy: according to March study, California farmers growing pistachios bring more than five billion dollars to the state economy and create more than 47,000 jobs, reports Business Insider.
“Nuts are the perfect expensive goods for theft and resale, because, unlike electronic devices, pistachios have no serial numbers, which makes them practically unqualified,” explains the Washington POST the popularity of nuts from robbers.
Robber nuts were especially flourished from 2014 to 2017 after organized criminal groups stole nuts in the amount of more than 7.6 million dollars, according to Cargonet, a company that tracks theft of cargo. Thieves forged documents, hacked the databases to redirect and steal cargo of valuable nuts, reported Buzzfeed News in 2016. In recent years, the theft has decreased, because as companies take new methods of tracking and protecting supplies, such as photographing and fingerprints of drivers, reports Capitol Press.
previously became known that the police in the Indian village of Dhouren, Chhattisgarh, recorded the fact the alarm of 800 kilograms of cow’s manure. On the night of June 9, the unknown person kidnapped 800 kilograms of cow manure in the amount of 1.6 thousand rupees (1.5 thousand rubles). Law enforcement officers turned to the wanted to the disappearance.