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Re:Thanks to facial recognition, a third person is arrested ... by habeebtc on Thursday May 24, 2018 @12:51PM (#17145890)
I thought the same thing and did some searching. Based on the street price of potatoes in China, it's in the neighborhood of 30k pounds. More if that number is wholesale value.

The other thing we can surmise which is strange about the crime: He had to have stolen a truck worth of potatoes. So he either used his own truck, or he stole a truck and then gave it back after having fenced the potatoes.

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Re:Thanks to facial recognition, a third person is arrested ... by magduf on Thursday May 24, 2018 @04:21PM (#17148015)
>So he either used his own truck, or he stole a truck and then gave it back after having fenced the potatoes.

I wonder if it's possible that he ditched the truck afterwards, it was recovered unharmed, so they didn't bother charging him with that, or the article just didn't bother listing the additional charge of truck theft since the potato theft was far worse financially.

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