{"id":173866,"date":"2026-02-11T19:45:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T19:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/173866\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T19:45:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T19:45:09","slug":"sacramento-man-arrested-after-stolen-beehives-found-in-remote-yolo-county-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/173866\/","title":{"rendered":"Sacramento man arrested after stolen beehives found in remote Yolo County area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Sacramento man was arrested after stolen beehives worth tens of thousands of dollars were found in remote Yolo County and returned to their owner.<\/p>\n<p>YOLO COUNTY, Calif. \u2014 A Sacramento man has been arrested after investigators recovered several stolen beehives in a remote area of northeastern Yolo County, according to the Yolo County Sheriff\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p>Deputies were alerted Tuesday to multiple beehive boxes that had recently appeared in the rural area.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Agricultural crime investigators responded and located the live hives, which authorities say had been altered to conceal identifying markings.<\/p>\n<p>While monitoring the site, investigators observed a suspect return and continue modifying the hives, the sheriff\u2019s office said.<\/p>\n<p>Using resources from the California Rural Crime Prevention Task Force, investigators determined when the hives were stolen and identified the rightful owner in a Central California jurisdiction.<\/p>\n<p>The stolen hives, valued in the high tens of thousands of dollars, were recovered and returned to the owner.<\/p>\n<p>Leonid Terzi, 47, of Sacramento, was arrested on multiple felony charges related to the theft.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities said the investigation remains ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information about the theft or the discovery of related apiary equipment in Yolo County is urged to contact law enforcement.<\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"photo__placeholder\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/ebd7483f-de6e-4990-ad3b-f02b95f5f6f6_16x9.jpg\"\/><br \/>\n                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"photo__main\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/ebd7483f-de6e-4990-ad3b-f02b95f5f6f6_1140x641.jpg\"  alt=\"\" style=\"opacity:0\" onload=\"this.style.opacity=1\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Watch more on ABC10:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc10.com\/article\/news\/crime\/christopher-palma-arrest-mail-theft-folsom\/103-2b8f42be-c3e9-422c-a50d-186a4aa93737\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Folsom police arrest man for mail theft from neighborhood cluster mailbox<\/a><\/p>\n<p>    ABC10: Watch, Download, Read<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Sacramento man was arrested after stolen beehives worth tens of thousands of dollars were found in remote&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":173867,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[121,123,122],"class_list":{"0":"post-173866","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sacramento","8":"tag-sacramento","9":"tag-sacramento-headlines","10":"tag-sacramento-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}