On Tuesday, February 6th, 54-year-old Yoel Torres was apprehended for breaking into the American Bee Project located in Hialeah, Florida, for stealing bee hives and letting bees escape.
Yoel was spotted on surveillance camera breaking into the beekeeping facility on multiple occasions dating back to last month. The surveillance footage shows Yoel parking his truck outside of the American Bee Project near Northwest 170th Street and Northwest 97th Avenue. The suspect climbed over a barbed wire fence, put on a bee suit before he removed the hives and place them on the bed of his truck.