Friday, August 29, 2008
Police find thieves via rice trail (4:59 p.m.)
MANILA -- Police say four thieves have been arrested after unwittingly leaving a trail of rice stolen from a warehouse in the central Philippines.
Senior Inspector Danilo Francisco said the four men were charged Friday with robbery.
Francisco said they broke into a warehouse in Bacolod city before dawn Wednesday, cutting the barbed wire on walls surrounding the compound and hauling off four sacks of rice, a television set and assorted grocery items in a tricycle.
Unknown to the thieves, one of the sacks of rice had a hole. Grain spilled through the hole and into the street, leading police to their house about 500 yards (450 meters) from the warehouse. (AP)
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