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WINNIPEG, Manitoba -- It didn't take Winnipeg police long to solve the great Christmas tree heist -- a trail of pine cones from the scene of the crime led directly to a suspect's living room.
"It's got to be the dumbest crime of the century," apartment caretaker Cindy Peterson said Wednesday. "You could see where they dragged it into the house."
The Yuletide theft happened early Dec. 23 when someone cut down an 18-foot blue spruce from in front of Peterson's apartment building. The tree wasn't sawed at the base of the trunk, but about six feet up.
Peterson said she only noticed the tree had been lopped off when she went out to shovel the walk.
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