Last December, at the height of Greece’s olive harvest season, two men drove a stolen white truck to the Glyfada mill in a small town not far from Kalamata. After idling the truck for a while, the men stepped out of the cab, loaded 33 sacks of olives into the back of the truck, then drove to a field. They transferred their haul, worth about €1,500 (a bit more than $1,700), into different bags—presumably attempting to conceal its provenance—then dropped off the truck back at the municipal office where they’d pinched it. Unfortunately for them, they’d parked their ill-gotten getaway vehicle directly in front of the mill’s security camera, which made them easy to track. Also, they brought their bags to a second mill nearby and asked the owner to press the stolen olives into oil. Suspicious, he called the authorities, and that was that.