Earlier this month, a landscape crew in Snellville, GA was fired upon by thieves when crew members tried to stop them from stealing equipment off their truck. Thefts such as this are becoming widespread per Mary Kay Woodworth, executive director of the Georgia Urban Ag Council, and that is why the organization has spent the last year collecting information from victims of landscape theft to share with local law enforcement.

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