MASSIVE EEL THEFT

Three crooks were busted in Brooklyn’s Chinatown Monday for stealing more than $1 million worth of frozen eels from a shipping terminal in Elizabeth, New Jersey. The Brooklyn crooks – Wei Da Li, 39, Sheauloon Yat, 51, Fa Deng, 36 – picked up the shipment of 2,000 boxes of eels back on June 1 from a New Jersey terminal by using fraudulent paperwork supposedly from the Mars Global Trading company. They transported the shipment, worth a total of $1,040,000, to Brooklyn. But the real owner of Mars Global Trading contacted police and concocted a a sting operation to get the fish back. The man pulled up to the location and said he wanted to buy a large quantity of eels, which led him to a warehouse where they stashed the mother load. There were 745 boxed of eels at the location in addition to another 200 boxes which were loaded onto a truck.
* Pretty slick.
* Now the crooks are on ice.
* Eels well that ends well?
* The owner of Mars Global Trading must have known something was fishy.
* Not another stolen eel story.
* “Hello, police? I need help recovering a million dollars worth of stolen eels.” “GET OFF THIS LINE!”
* The Mars Global Trading Company? So the eels were from Mars?
* If only there was a way to describe how slippery these crooks were.
* They were as slippery as an … Darn, it’ll come to me.
* The eels were worth a million dollars – or zero dollars if you don’t like eels.
* Okay, that was lame so how about an eel quote from Thomas More: “Getting married is like putting one’s hand in a bag containing 99 serpents and one eel.” (Interesting that Jay Z went with 99 problems, too. I sense a lawsuit here.)