Digging up a flower bush you like from a city flowerbed is already theft. The story of the “flower thief” from Yalta

CrimeaPRESS reports:

Yalta police detained a man who stole oleander bushes from a city flowerbed.

A representative of the state-owned enterprise filed a statement with the police and reported about an unknown person who had torn out five bushes of the “common oleander” plant from one of the flower beds located in the central part of Yalta. The amount of damage caused amounted to over 3 thousand rubles.

As a result of operational search activities, police officers identified and detained a suspect. As it turned out, on the day of the incident, after drinking strong drinks, a 48-year-old local resident was walking around the city. The man’s attention was attracted by oleander bushes growing along the sidewalk in a flowerbed.— reported the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Crimea.

After making sure that there were no witnesses (but no surveillance cameras), the suspect snatched someone else’s property and took it to his home. The attacker immediately decorated the yard of his house by planting the stolen plants.

As a result, the oleander bushes—city property—were seized by police officers and returned to the applicant. Plants have been replanted in the city flowerbed. What about the “flower thief”? A criminal case has been initiated under Part 1 of Art. 158 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“Theft”). The sanction of the article provides for a maximum penalty of imprisonment for a term of up to two years. The attacker was given a preventive measure in the form of a written undertaking not to leave the place.

Photo: Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Crimea.

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