Los Angeles citizens can rest effortless understanding that a felony theft ring is no for a longer period stalking the city’s retail merchants to feed a Lego black market. Which is because the California Highway Patrol (CHP) announced this week that it experienced arrested four persons it accused of swiping what police estimated was “approximately $300,000” worth of Lego sets.
The four experienced allegedly burgled merchants like Target, Home Depot, and Lowe’s of their Lego inventory and offered them to black-current market sellers who would then vend the stolen bricks at “seemingly respectable firms, swap meets, or on the web.” Police say they have been booked on “charges associated to Organized Retail Theft, Grand Theft, and Conspiracy to commit a crime.”
Like any other collectible, Lego sets are primary targets. In 2021, French police announced they had been investigating an global Lego criminal offense ring. That exact same year, authorities in Seattle arrested a shop proprietor accused of offering stolen Lego sets subsequent a clumsily named “Operation: MandalOrganized Retail Theft” investigation, as NBC Information claimed.