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A sheriff’s drone nabbed a fertilizer thief — then deputies made him return the haul
FOR THE SECOND TIME IN A YEAR, San Joaquin County sheriff’s deputies have foiled an attempt to steal supplies from a Scotts Miracle-Gro manufacturing plant in Linden. Soaring prices for fertilizer could have made the haul worth a lot more had law enforcement not intervened. The suspected thief was seen tossing 43 bags of potting mix over a […] The post A sheriff’s drone nabbed a fertilizer thief — then deputies made him return the haul appeared first on Local News Matters .
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According to Local News Matters’s source item, A sheriff’s drone nabbed a fertilizer thief — then deputies made him return the haul, FOR THE SECOND TIME IN A YEAR, San Joaquin County sheriff’s deputies have foiled an attempt to steal supplies from a Scotts Miracle-Gro manufacturing plant in Linden. Soaring prices for fertilizer could have made the haul worth a lot more had law enforcement not intervened. The suspected thief was seen tossing 43 bags of potting mix over a […] The post A sheriff’s drone nabbed a fertilizer thief — then deputies made him return the haul appeared first on Local News Matters .
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