This week, the California Highway Patrol discovered around$ 300,000 in lost Lego items after breaking into a retail theft ring.
According to NBC Los Angeles, CHP officers executed search warrants on Tuesday and detained four individuals connected to the band, who would take Legos from Target and other Southern Californian suppliers and market them to fences, or people or organizations that purchase stolen goods and resell them. These fences frequently sell the stolen goods to trustworthy companies or online and at transfer shows. According to the store, Gates may not even realize that the goods they purchased are stolen.
Jeremy Johnson, 44, of Orange, California, Marta Hardt, 39, of Huntington Beach, Chung- Pei Yu, 47, of Studio City, and Shen Li, 35, of Brea, were arrested as part of the statue, ABC 7 reported. The four were detained on suspicion of robbery and conspiracy.
CHP officials conducted the arrest as part of a task force investigating financial crime that has been attempting to reduce California’s growing retail theft rate.
Suppliers who were the victims of this band say they lost around$ 300,000 in full.
Photos of the statue present many Lego models, ABC News reported.
According to NBC, many Star Wars Lego sets, including the Millennium Falcon, can be purchased for around$ 900, adding that photos it received of the missing photos show dozens of those and other limited Lego items.
A senior Home Depot professional testified before a legislative panel about the growing threat of burglary in late last season. Home Depot’s head of lost prevention, Scott Glenn, claimed the firm had experienced a” major upsurge” in situations where employees have “violent contact with bad actors.”
A person fatally shot a Home Depot safety guard while stealing a telephone cable in April 2023. While her two-year-old child was in the back, she fled the scene in a car driven by her fiance. An old Home Depot contractor was killed in 2022 when he was pushed to the ground by a shoplifter.
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California, in special, is struggling with financial fraud, with some stores taking extraordinary measures to combat the crimes. For instance, one Walgreens network went so far as to install chains across its freezers while supermarket chain Safeway installed return gates at some of its San Francisco locations.
California has become known for crush- and- grabs, where thieves enter a store, blow display cases to seize items, and depart swiftly. At one Pasadena jewelry shop, thieves made off with practically$ 500, 000 in goods in one incident.
Many attribute the rise in retail theft in California to a statewide ballot measure that reduced property incidents worth less than$ 950 from felonies to misdemeanors, which was approved by voters almost ten years ago.
