The events of Dec. 6, 1928 in Ciénaga, Colombia, would inspire a famous novelist, topple a government and change the dynamics between a massive corporation and one of the many countries it operated in.

Easter, a time for renewal, rebirth, and crime? Sure. But the symbols associated with the holiday — eggs, chicks and rabbits — are all also just fodder for thieves looking to make a quick buck.

Pig rustling. Porcine plundering. Hog heists. Whatever you call this crime, it’s a continuing problem in many nations.

It was a major drug bust. 1,600 arrests and over 11,000 pounds of a highly addictive substance confiscated. But it wasn’t the DEA breaking up a meth ring. It was the Chinese, stopping the British from importing opium.

A list of the top 10 agricultural crimes for 2013 in no particular order.

Unique to Australia, this subspecies of the wolf is considered both a pest animal and a national icon, protected on conservation lands and killed in farm country.

Frank Pearson used the name Captain Starlight a full 15 years before Thomas Alexander Browne wrote the book “Robbery Under Arms,” about a cattle rustler, or duffer, with that appellation. But even so, there is confusion over whether the author actually based his character on Pearson. There are several candidates, including two other “bushrangers,” the term for these types of outlaws who lived both literally and figuratively on the edges of the “civilized” white society.

They say the beef smelled like an embalmed dead body. By the end of the scandal, it would irrevocably change how Americans dealt with their food.

There was a time when the worst thing that could happen to your prized pumpkin would be someone smashing it up. These days, though, you might need to put them under lock and key.