WELLINGTON: New Zealand police mentioned Thursday they’ve constructed a robust case in opposition to a pair of Lego-loving shoplifters, charged with stealing NZ$20,000 value (US$12,000) of the favored toy.
The haul of brightly colored interlocking plastic bricks was stolen, police mentioned, in current months from quite a few shops throughout Auckland, New Zealand’s largest metropolis.
The thieves constructed an audacious manner of pinching units of the constructing blocks.
“In every occasion, the alleged thieves openly created a diversion within the retailer by setting off the hearth alarm,“ sergeant Karen Tabb mentioned in an announcement.
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A forty five-year-old girl and a 34-year-old man have been charged with 30 counts of shoplifting.
The thieves additionally face costs underneath the Fire and Emergency New Zealand Act, police mentioned, for utilizing hearth alarms as a distraction.
A police workforce raided an handle in South Auckland, the place the pair had been arrested and a few of the stolen Lego was recovered, Tabb added.
Lego kits in New Zealand retail as much as NZ$1,499 — for a mannequin of the favored Star Wars spaceship, the Millennium Falcon, which is made of 7,451 items.
Lego cemented its place because the world’s greatest toymaker in 2023. The Danish toy large posted outcomes final month of US$9.6 billion, a report sum for the household firm.
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