Dec 11, 2024 - Politics & Policy
Bayou bonsai bandit
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A thief made off with several expensive, finely manicured bonsai trees from two nurseries in and around New Orleans — on Thanksgiving, no less.
- One nursery said it had been "meticulously growing and caring for some of these for over three years, so these plants are not something that can be replaced," Axios New Orleans' Carlie Kollath Wells reports.
- The thief (or thieves) also stole poinsettias, pottery and other plants during a Thanksgiving-morning break-in.
🪴 The nurseries believe the thief is planning to resell the plants. They've released a surveillance video of the incident, showing a person with a hooded jacket loading the plants into a gray Toyota Tacoma with no license plate.
