Everything was awesome, everything was cool for an organized LEGO shoplifting team, everything was awesome, until the Santa Rosa Police Department shattered the dream. KNTV reports that 39 year-old California man Robert Lopez, not pictured above because he and his gang aren’t literally LEGO criminals (duh), was arrested after cops executed a search warrant on his home and found at least $6,000 worth of the construction toys that Lopez had bought from a crew of shoplifters he regularly sent to Target and Walmart stores to procure. Lopez would then either open and part them out for sale to hobbyists making custom sets – cops found dozens of bins and drawers, some of them containing mini-figure heads categorized by facial expression – or just still boxed.
However what Lopez is likely really shitting bricks about is the not-tiny-nor-plastic pump-action shotgun with a drum-style magazine, assault rifle, loaded handgun, and ammo for all of which that the cops found in his home, none of which he’s permitted to have being a convicted felon. Maybe prosecutors could sift through the seized parts and build him a little jail as a going away present.