Trio busted for peddling $1M worth of frozen eels

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Three bandits were busted in Brooklyn’s Chinatown Monday for swiping more than $1 million worth of frozen eels in a massive heist from a shipping terminal in Elizabeth, New Jersey, cops said. The slippery crooks were arrested when cops busted them selling the delicacies at Eighth Avenue and 66th Street in Sunset Park at around 2:50 p.m., according to police. The Brooklyn crooks — Wei Da Li, 39, Sheauloon Yat, 51, Fa Deng, 36 — picked up the shipment of 2,000 boxes of eels back on June 1 from a New Jersey terminal by using fraudulent paperwork supposedly from Mars Global Trading. The trio transported the shipment, worth a total of $1,040,000, to Brooklyn.(nypost.com)…[+]