In 2008, thieves stole an entire beach in Jamaica overnight. Roughly 500 dump-truck loads of white Caribbean sand, worth around a million dollars, were dug up and hauled away from a resort site in the dark, and despite an investigation involving death threats and a helicopter chase, not a single grain was ever recovered

A million-dollar heist in plain sight—and the thieves got away with every grain. The post In 2008, thieves stole an entire beach in Jamaica overnight. Roughly 500 dump-truck loads of white Caribbean sand, worth around a million dollars, were dug up and hauled…