The residents of Los Angeles can relaxation straightforward understanding prison ring of theft is not stalking town's retail shops to gasoline the Lego black market. That's as a result of the California Freeway Patrol (CHP) introduced this week that it had arrested 4 folks it accused of eradicating what police estimated was “roughly $300,000” price of Lego units.
The 4 allegedly robbed shops equivalent to Goal, Dwelling Depot and Lowe's of their Lego shares and offered them to black market sellers, who then offered the stolen bricks at “apparently legit companies, swap meets or on-line.” Police say they had been arraigned on “prices associated to organized retail theft, grand theft and conspiracy to commit a felony.”
The CHP posted photographs of the bust on Instagram. Stolen units included the $85,921-piece Millennium Falcon (versus the $7,000-plus piece, 2017's $800 behemoth), the $500, 6,167-piece. Lord of the Rings Rivendell Citadel and a $1,458 Porsche 911 set.
Like another collectible, Lego units are prime targets. In 2021, French police introduced they had been investigating a world Lego prison group. That very same 12 months, Seattle authorities arrested a retailer proprietor accused of promoting stolen Lego units in an investigation clumsily dubbed “Operation: MandalOrganized Retail Theft,” as a result of NBC Information reported.