Yunlin police today announced the arrest of two men suspected of stealing 330kg of garlic from a farmer's field on a rainy night over the weekend.
The Yunlin County Police Bureau said the two 50-year-old suspects, surnamed Chuang (莊) and Yang (楊), drove to the Baojhong Township (褒忠) farm late on Saturday night, assuming that no one would be monitoring the fields due to the rainy weather.
Photo courtesy of the Yunlin County Police Bureau
However, the pair were spotted by the farm's owner, who took down their license plate number as they attempted to make off with the stolen garlic in the bed of their small work truck, police said.
The bureau's Huwei Precinct said it received a report about the theft at 10pm, and by 11pm had tracked the two men down near Xingnan Bridge in Huwei Township (虎尾), seizing 550 catties (330kg) of garlic and an unspecified quantity of amphetamines.
The stolen garlic had a market value of NT$17,050, police said.
Both men were later turned over to the Yunlin District Prosecutors' Office on suspicion of larceny and contraventions of the Narcotics Hazard Prevention Act (毒品危害防制條例), the bureau said.
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