California’s lucrative nut business is increasingly a target of sophisticated crime rings, and losses from cargo heists and a spike in thefts have led the industry and law enforcement to call an emergency summit. "It’s not like the movies, where they just pull up and take the truck full of pistachios at gunpoint and then drive off kind of thing," said Kern County Senior Deputy Sheriff Richard Hudson. "They actually steal the identity of a trucking company that is out of business, or they could do it creating an entirely false identity for a driver. There are many different methods that they use.
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