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Victoria Bekiempis

RARE PHOTOS: Crustacean caper man arrested for alleged shellfish shipments scam | Rare Historical Photos

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Officials allege that Subil used false email accounts and made them seem as if they belonged to multiple Safeway staffers. Photograph: Getty Images

A crab-hungry crook in Washington state has been arrested after allegedly posing as a grocery employee to orchestrate the theft of $700,000 in crustaceans from an unsuspecting seafood distributor.

Federal authorities pinched David Subil in late February after they accused him of pretending to work for Safeway grocery so he could pilfer pounds upon pounds of shellfish, according to the Seattle television news station KING.

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