The stolen pistachios were grown by Touchstone Pistachio Company, which found tens of thousands of nuts were missing in an audit conducted this month. A few days later, after checking the surveillance footage, sheriff's agents arrested Alberto Montemayor, 34, who worked for Montemayor Trucking, a family business that the pistachio company had hired this year as a contractor, according to authorities. Law enforcement officials in Central California have solved the case of 42,000 pounds of pistachios that disappeared earlier this month. Since compost piles offer more ideal conditions for decay than in a natural environment, pistachio shells are likely to take even more than 3 years to biodegrade outside.
The pistachios were colored red to cover the unsightly but natural marks on the nut shells, he explained. Officials from the company, Touchstone Pistachio, called the agricultural crime unit of the Tulare County Sheriff's Office. When completing orders and reviewing inventory, employees at a pistachio company in the San Joaquin Valley realized that something was not adding up. While neither the sheriff's office nor the Touchstone Pistachio Company immediately responded to requests for comment, investigators said in a statement that Mr.
Montemayor had been transferred to Tulare County and that the recovered pistachios were returned to the nut company. The English name pistachio is derived from “Pisteh”, a Persian name, also characterized as green almond. Among other things, investigators tracked down the missing Touchstone pistachios by reviewing video from several outlets, including the processing plant, and checking inventory documentation, England said. The delicious but illicit theft of pistacia vera, from the cashew family, was discovered in June by a routine audit conducted by the Touchstone Pistachio Company, according to the Tulare County Sheriff's Office.
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