As “organized crime” rings go, deputies just took down a strange one in Florida devoted entirely to stealing berries.
The 11 men were skilled at it, too, having amassed 6,000 pounds of saw palmetto berries before deputies closed in, the Martin County Sheriff’s Office said in an Aug. 13 news release.
The roundup happened around 10 p.m. Aug. 11 in a rural area east of Stuart, and the suspects did not go down easily, the sheriff’s office says…