California man charged with stealing beeswax for drug habit

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A California man has been charged with stealing nearly 200 pounds (91 kg) of beeswax from the beekeeper who employed him and selling it to support his drug habit, in what local police say is their first arrest for pilfering the gooey substance. Karl Robert Glick, 26, a resident of Madera County in California's agricultural Central Valley, was arrested on Saturday after his employer found in Glick's car a $1,700 receipt for sale of beeswax to a Fresno company, Madera County Sheriff’s Department spokeswoman Erica Stuart said. Deputies also seized nearly 200 pounds (91 kg) of beeswax from Glick's home, Stuart said. Authorities believe Glick was melting the wax into sellable portions at his home, where deputies also found drug paraphernalia, she said.

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