{"id":1210,"date":"2005-11-28T00:22:50","date_gmt":"2005-11-28T06:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/?p=1210"},"modified":"2005-11-28T00:23:32","modified_gmt":"2005-11-28T06:23:32","slug":"oregon-man-stole-200k-worth-of-legos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/?p=1210","title":{"rendered":"Oregon Man Stole $200K Worth of Legos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Look, I have many fond memories of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lego.com\/\">Legos<\/a> from my childhood.  Heck, I even bought a 1000-piece set recently to jack around with during dull times [bummer side note:  no wheels included, so I can&#8217;t build two Lego cars to repeatedly crash into each other].  <a href=\"http:\/\/vodkapundit.com\/\">Vodkapundit<\/a>&#8216;s Stephen Green <a href=\"http:\/\/vodkapundit.com\/archives\/007231.php\">really digs them<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Still, with that disclaimer, I have never let a single Lego brick lead me to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.suntimes.com\/output\/news\/cst-nws-lego26.html\">life of crime<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Agents had to use a 20-foot truck to cart away the evidence from a suspect&#8217;s house &#8212; mountains of Lego bricks.<\/p>\n<p>William Swanberg, 40, of Reno, Nev., was indicted by a grand jury Wednesday, accused of stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of the colorful plastic building blocks from Target stores.<\/p>\n<p>Target estimates Swanberg stole up to $200,000 worth of the brick sets from stores in Oregon, Utah, Arizona, Nevada and California. The Legos were resold on the Internet, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Attempts to reach Swanberg at a county jail, where he was being held on $250,000 bail, were unsuccessful. It wasn&#8217;t known if he had an attorney.<\/p>\n<p>Swanberg is accused of switching the bar codes on Lego boxes, replacing an expensive one with a cheaper label, said Detective Troy Dolyniuk of the Washington County fraud and identity theft team. Police haven&#8217;t said how he was able to manipulate codes.<\/p>\n<p>Records of the Lego collector&#8217;s Web site, Bricklink.com, show that Swanberg has sold about $600,000 worth of Legos since 2002, Dolyniuk said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If found guilty, the man should be sentenced to a supervised, brick-by-brick construction of his own cell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Look, I have many fond memories of Legos from my childhood. Heck, I even bought a 1000-piece set recently to jack around with during dull times [bummer side note: no wheels included, so I can&#8217;t build two Lego cars to repeatedly crash into each other]. Vodkapundit&#8216;s Stephen Green really digs them. Still, with that disclaimer, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wtf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}