I suppose it was only a matter of time before she was caught.

http://www.glendalenewspress.com/news/tn-gnp-me-lego-worker-arrested-for-allegedly-stealing-thousands-of-dollars-in-merchandiese-20140728,0,5572581.story

Lanisa Williams, 29, admitted to police that she had stolen boxes of LEGO merchandise, some valued at more than $400, during the past year and a half, said Glendale police spokeswoman Tahnee Lightfoot.

Now you know why the store rarely has DSs and SSDs in stock.. :P

There is no point to steal anything. Get you $%&# together, go to school/get a job, work hard, get a bit of luck, etc. Stealing is an easy cop-out from doing work (there are exceptions), but there is no reason to do stupid things like this. 

How the heck do you you walk out of a store with a SSD or DS?  LOL

How the heck do you you walk out of a store with a SSD or DS?  LOL

A very large Gucci bag?

How the heck do you you walk out of a store with a SSD or DS?  LOL

 

I am not an expert on malls, but many (most?) of the stores have back entrances for deliveries and employees use - if she was an assistant manager, loading up the car and locking up after everyone else went home was probably fairly simple.

I am not an expert on malls, but many (most?) of the stores have back entrances for deliveries and employees use - if she was an assistant manager, loading up the car and locking up after everyone else went home was probably fairly simple.

Probably true.  Tossing them in the dumpster.  Nice.

The other guy had 300 sets valued at $50k which averages out to $167 a pop. They weren't stealing speedorz and battle packs.

 

Probably true.  Tossing them in the dumpster.  Nice.

 

I hope it wasn't the Quizno's dumpster because we all know someone would have found them before she could get back to them..

At least now we know where are the extra SSD and GE's are coming from!

Always interesting to read about Lego crime - probably the only toy product that continues to entice some over to the morally corrupt Dark Side...

The other guy had 300 sets valued at $50k which averages out to $167 a pop. They weren't stealing speedorz and battle packs.

 

 

Jeff and Ed may have to close that Brickfolio...

Always interesting to read about Lego crime - probably the only toy product that continues to entice some over to the morally corrupt Dark Side...

 

Surely you jest.

 

Maybe the biggest (though Barbie isn't giving up the tiara without a fight, I'm sure) target for thievin', but by no means the only. Selling stolen goods is a fact of life from lipstick to Lionel trains to luggage tags to Purina Lion Chow.

Jeff and Ed may have to close that Brickfolio...

 

I was wondering if the buyer was one of us - one of us - one of us.

I was wondering if the buyer was one of us - one of us - one of us.

..... Just a stranger on a bus..... ;)

I was wondering if the buyer was one of us - one of us - one of us.

I do remember a fellow a while back that had a "hookup" and kept getting cheap exclusives.  I'm not saying, but I'm saying.

Ha, people never cease to amaze me!

Probably true.  Tossing them in the dumpster.  Nice.

 

A good BrickPicker would have saved them from the dumpster long before her shift ended.

If twenty years in retail taught me anything it's that internal theft is easy to catch. I've probably seen a couple hundred employees and managers get walked out of stores that I worked at in hand cuffs.

Jeff and Ed may have to close that Brickfolio...

That is who I thought of too. I even made the comment that the only way you get them that cheap is out the back door. 

How the heck do you you walk out of a store with a SSD or DS?  LOL

 

I guess if you are super fat.

I am not an expert on malls, but many (most?) of the stores have back entrances for deliveries and employees use - if she was an assistant manager, loading up the car and locking up after everyone else went home was probably fairly simple.

That is true, but how do you account for the loss of inventory on her shift, especially on that type of scale?  She was bound to get caught.  If she was smart, she would have done it a little at a time over an extended period of time.....not that I condone stealing.  I think what she did was wrong.  She got greedy and is now going to pay the price.

This clip has shows a picture of the worker and the stolen legos. I remember her helping me a couple of times.

 

http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2014/07/30/woman-arrested-for-stealing-thousands-of-dollars-worth-of-legos-from-glendale-store/

That is true, but how do you account for the loss of inventory on her shift, especially on that type of scale?  

 

I was not claiming she was bright or a master thief, just addressing the question as to how she could have easily removed the sets from the store.

I remember her helping me one time too- she dropped a GE I bought while trying to put it in the bag and dented the corner.

I was not claiming she was bright or a master thief, just addressing the question as to how she could have easily removed the sets from the store.

 

Some stores may not even take inventory, until they surprisingly notice $50,000 of merch missing.