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Police probe beehive heist

Police are searching for a thief with sticky fingers, but it's not money or jewels that has gone missing.

Police are searching for a thief with sticky fingers, but it's not money or jewels that has gone missing. About 500,000 bees, as much as 3,600 kilograms of honey and 100 hive frames vanished from a remote Fraser Valley property sometime between July 7 and 26. Total value of the brazen bee burglary is estimated at $100,000. Police say the targeted hives were set far back from the road on property along the Canada/U.S. border south of the Abbotsford airport.