A “lucky” money tree that was stolen from a Chinese takeaway in Chatham is returned to its owner after police arrested two Romanian nationals, according to reports. The plant is identified as a Pachira aquatica, a species often kept as a symbolic good-luck plant in businesses and homes.
The money tree had been in the possession of Bill’s Kitchen, where the owner, Hongyan Zhu, received it from her father when she took over the restaurant about 15 years ago. After the theft, the plant was missing for a period of time, prompting attention from the business and local community.
Police then recover the plant and return it to the restaurant. The same reporting states that two Romanian nationals are arrested in connection with the theft. Details on charges, the timeline of the theft, and the circumstances of how the plant was taken were not provided in the supplied excerpts. The overall account across the sources is that the stolen plant is recovered and the investigation leads to two arrests.
