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

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

It’s the kind of story that sounds like a joke about the Caribbean until you look at the paperwork. Which is real. Filed in court. Involving multiple government ministries, the Jamaican Constabulary, the Prime Minister’s office, and a series of civil suits still pending years later. What happened at Coral Spring Beach in the Trelawny parish of northern Jamaica, sometime between May and July 2008, was one of the more logistically absurd crimes of…