Man accused of stealing $200,000 worth of Legos
Have you ever bought Lego’s from bricklink.com? One of the top sellers has been caught switching bar codes on Lego boxes before buying them. By replacing an expensive one with a cheaper label William Swanberg was able to make a pretty penny by selling them for more on his internet site, which has sold more than $600,000 in Lego’s.
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, Nevada, is accused of stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of the colorful plastic building blocks. Swanberg was indicted by a grand jury in Hillsboro, a Portland suburb, which charged him with stealing Lego sets from Target stores. Target estimates Swanberg stole up to $200,000 worth of the brick sets pilfered from their stores in Oregon, Utah, Arizona, Nevada and California. The Legos were resold on the Internet, officials said.
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