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California.Beeline Honey
May 15, 2017, 9:13 PM CDT / Updated May 15, 2017, 9:13 PM CDT
By Tim Stelloh
It was probably the biggest bee heist in California history: on January 17, hundreds of hives vanished from Sutter County, north of Sacramento.
Now, authorities believe they’ve identified a Russian-Ukrainian suspect in the crime — along with a string of other bee thefts that they believe he carried out in California and possibly beyond.
Pavel Tveretinov, 51, was arrested on April 28 in Madera County on suspicion of possessing stolen property, Fresno County Sheriff’s Detective Andres Solis told NBC News.