'Crazy for Lego' man steals thousands of setsBy Rukmin Callimachi Portland, Oregon -
A 40-year-old man is behind bars, accused of stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars of Lego sets.William Swanberg was indicted on Wednesday by a Washington County grand jury on two counts of felony theft and one count of attempted felony theft.Swanberg - who is being held on $250 000 (about R1,6-million) bail - allegedly stole Lego sets from Target stores in Oregon by switching the bar codes on the boxes, covering over the pricing labels of expensive sets with labels from inexpensive ones, said Detective Troy Dolyniuk, a member of the Washington County fraud and identity theft enforcement team.Target, a discount retailer, estimates that Swanberg stole, and then resold on the Internet, up to $200 000 worth of the multi-coloured brick sets which authorities claim he pilfered from Target stores in Oregon, as well as Utah, Arizona, Nevada and California.US Postal Service agents who searched Swanberg's Reno, Nevada, home had to use a 6m truck to haul away all the sets they found at the residence.Target officials contacted police after noticing the same pattern at their stores in the five states...........
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ROFLMAO. i don't endorse stealing, but i confess to being sorely tempted at times. It took a 6m truck to move it all out, hmmm? That's a lot of LEGO. i'd not have been reselling it though. i'd have life size figurines going all over the house. Awesome article!
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