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Man who stole 5 million honey bees sentenced to house arrest

Bees (Pixabay)
Bees (Pixabay)
He also must pay the bee farmer family he stole from 20,000 in recompense.

The man who admitted to stealing 5 million honey bees from a farm in Saint-Valere has been sentenced.

Marco Beausoleil will be under house arrest for the next five months and is on probation for nine months as well.

He must also pay $40,000, half of which will go to the family of bee farmers he stole from.

Beausoleil admitted in September he stole the buzzing honeymakers in April, 2016 from a farm owned by the Labonté family.

His brother, Yannick Beausoleil, was also accused of the theft but was acquited.

The 5 million bees and their 184 hives have never been found.

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