Los Angeles electorate can leisure simple understanding {that a} prison robbery ring is now not stalking town’s retail retail outlets to feed a Lego black marketplace. That’s since the California Freeway Patrol (CHP) announced this week that it had arrested four people it accused of swiping what police estimated was once “roughly $300,000” price of Lego units.
The 4 had allegedly burgled retail outlets like Goal, House Depot, and Lowe’s in their Lego inventory and offered them to black-market sellers who would then vend the stolen bricks at “reputedly official companies, change meets, or on-line.” Police say they had been booked on “fees associated with Arranged Retail Robbery, Grand Robbery, and Conspiracy to devote against the law.”
Like another collectible, Lego units are high objectives. In 2021, French police introduced they had been investigating an international Lego crime ring. That very same 12 months, government in Seattle arrested a store proprietor accused of marketing stolen Lego units following a clumsily named “Operation: MandalOrganized Retail Robbery” investigation, as NBC News reported.
