http://www.vocativ.com/underworld/crime/lego-heists/Last week’s back-to-back busts underscore what appears to be a growing awareness among criminals of Legos’ street value. Over the last couple of years, professional thieves and opportunists around the world have turned the Danish building blocks into fat stacks of Benjamins. They’ve included Silicon Valley executives, criminal masterminds in Florida, Oklahoma conmen and even drug dealers in Amsterdam, who have started accepting Lego toys as payment.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/24/michael-pollara-shoplifter_n_3486798.html>The investigation began when nearly $900 of Lego sets vanished midday from the Toys R Us store in Boynton Beach. Before it was over, authorities would be tailing the alleged mastermind believed to have stolen more than $2 million of toys from Toys R Us stores from Maine to California.http://www.foxnews.com/story/2005/11/25/reno-man-arrested-for-200000-lego-theft.html>Agents had to use a 20-foot truck to cart away the evidence from a suspect's house — mountains of Lego bricks.>William Swanberg, 40, of Reno, Nev., is accused of stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of the colorful plastic building blocks.Never, ever, underestimate the power of autism.
