Even the experienced investigators and forensic experts of the Novovolynsk city police department had their hair stand on end when they learned about the crime that occurred at the local meat processing plant. Only in recent days did the management of this enterprise discover the disappearance of several dozen meters of ... railway track that once served as access roads to the plant. Workers who were making a round of the long-defunct track were walking along it and... Instead of rails and sleepers, only their imprints were visible on the ground. In total, the thieves dismantled 270 meters of railway track. The management of the VTP "Volynmiaso" turned to law enforcement officers. The latter headed, understandably, where — to scrap metal collection points. And not in vain, because they very quickly found the stolen goods there. More than 2,000 railway spikes were lying around in the warehouse, as well as several dozen rails. After that, finding out who exactly committed the sensational crime was a matter of technique. The "accomplices" of the railway workers turned out to be four local young men. Two of the older ones are 29 years old, the others — 21 and 18 years old. All of them, say the police, are troublesome lads, not working. As the head of the investigative department of the Novovolynsk city police department, Yurii Dushnyi, told us, the crime was committed over the course of several weeks. First they came and removed the spikes. And then each time they came on a cart and unloaded the rails at the collection point. The lads didn't make much — scrap is accepted at a few kopecks per kilogram. One time they received a hundred hryvnias for the four of them, another time — three hundred. Meanwhile, the management of the meat processing plant stated that the losses caused to the enterprise amount to 38 thousand hryvnias.