National Fisherman

May 6, 2015

Thieves make off with 9 tons of crab

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Guest Author:
Linc Bedrosian

WINTER HAVEN, Fla. — Several Central Florida bandits with a taste for seafood made off with about 18,000 pounds of crab.

According to investigators, an employee at a fish market in Winter Haven purposely left a door unlocked, allowing two masked men to use a forklift to grab pallet after pallet of frozen crabs.

The pair then loaded the frozen crustaceans into the back of a semi-truck and took off.

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