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For California bonsai practitioners, the theft of the trees is just further proof of an increasingly unsettling California trend in which their tiny living art pieces have transformed into a beacon for crime.
“This was not a bunch of kids joyriding who decided to steal a tree,” said Suzanne Miller, assistant director of the Bonsai Garden at Lake Merritt in Oakland. “This was a well-planned heist.”