"The plump citrus fruits have disappeared" ... Jeju agricultural products theft warning

(Jeju=Yonhap News) Reporter Baek Na-yong = Attention is required as the citrus harvest season, when agricultural product theft crimes are concentrated, approaches. According to the Jeju East Police Station on the 29th, a report was received on the 24th from the owner of a citrus orchard in Bonggae-dong, Jeju City, who reported that the citrus, which was about to be harvested, had disappeared overnight. The police conducted an investigation based on the garbage left in the field and identified 50-year-old A as a suspect. A stated to the police that he thought the field was a transaction field for spot sales (also known as 'field stripping') and harvested the citrus with 9 people in one day. In fact, A was confirmed to have made a spot sale transaction with a different field adjacent to the damaged citrus field. However, the citrus field that A had transacted with was about 1,000 square meters, while the damaged field was more than five times larger. The estimated yield of the ...