A man has been arrested for allegedly stealing $250,000 worth of Lego and toys from department stores across Adelaide in a bid to resell them online, police say.<\/p>\n
Officers conducted a search at a Royal Park address on Saturday and allegedly discovered about 2,500 individual items \u2014 including 1,700 unopened boxes of Lego \u2014 worth an estimated $250,000.<\/p>\n
SA Police said it was the largest individual seizure of stolen goods uncovered during its Operation Measure retail theft initiative.<\/p>\n
Police believed the items were stolen from stores throughout the Adelaide metropolitan area and were “likely” being sold online.<\/p>\n
The haul was so large that Water Operations officers were needed to remove three truck loads of items from the site, police said.<\/p>\n
A 41-year-old man has been charged with theft and unlawful possession and is due to appear in Port Adelaide Magistrates Court later this month.<\/p>\n
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Police seized Lego and toys worth $250,000 form a Royal Park address on August 30, 2025. (Supplied: South Australian Police)<\/p>\n
Acting Assistant Commissioner Metropolitan Operations Service John De Candia said Operation Measure would continue to target retail theft.<\/p>\n
“The size of the haul is significant and indicates the depth of the alleged offending we will allege has been taking place ” he said.<\/p>\n
“Operation Measure will continue to target recidivist offenders we believe are responsible for the majority of the offending of this nature.<\/p>\n
“This type of theft is not victimless.<\/p>\n
“Those who purchase cheap goods from online sites are unwittingly facilitating this crime and we would urge them to consider this.”<\/p>\n
Police said Operation Measure worked with those in the retail sector to identify offending patterns and people responsible for retail theft.<\/p>\n
It said since its inception had led to almost 2,500 arrests or reports.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has been arrested for allegedly stealing $250,000 worth of Lego and toys from department stores across…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":112195,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[3443,64,63,99,2603,80165,16497,32620,80163,80164,1158,10174,70264,18705],"class_list":["post-112194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-adelaide","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-business","tag-cbd","tag-department-store","tag-haul","tag-lego","tag-metropolitan","tag-operation-measure","tag-police","tag-sa-police","tag-stolen","tag-toys"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112194\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}