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Irvine LEGO heist: pasta swap used to get refunds, police say

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Source: Los Angeles Times
Irvine LEGO heist: pasta swap used to get refunds, police say
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Irvine police say 28-year-old Jarrelle Augustine swapped valuable LEGO pieces with dried pasta inside boxes and returned them to Target for refunds, part of a nationwide LEGO-theft pattern. The scheme is tied to about $34,000 in stolen or damaged merchandise across roughly 70 incidents, with about $4,000 linked to Orange County stores. Augustine, arrested in Paramount (originally from Texas), faces grand theft charges.

Topics:business#crime-and-courts#irvine#lego#organized-crime#refund-fraud#theft
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