Families devastated after 22,000 apples stolen from orchard in Michigan

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The six families who count on income from a Michigan orchard are at a loss after thieves made off with 7,000 pounds of apples harvested surreptitiously from five acres of land.

Matt Spicer, the harvest manager at Spicer Orchard in Fenton Township, told ABC 12 that sometime last week, the fruit thieves stripped hundreds of trees bare, leaving only a few apples at the very top of the trees.

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