{"id":579027,"date":"2026-04-01T18:02:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T18:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/579027\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T18:02:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T18:02:15","slug":"police-find-320000-worth-of-allegedly-stolen-lego-charge-two-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/579027\/","title":{"rendered":"Police find $320,000 worth of allegedly stolen Lego, charge two people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">A man and a women have been arrested after police discovered $320,000 worth of allegedly stolen Lego sets \u2014 which police said filled 15 pallets and two horse floats.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">South Australia police officers discovered the colourful construction sets during a raid at a Dudley Park home, in Adelaide&#8217;s inner north west, about 5pm on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">&#8220;The goods are suspected of being stolen from numerous retail outlets across the metropolitan area,&#8221; police said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Significant resources and logistics were required to transport the items which included two Mounted Police horse floats and 15 pallets to hold the seized Lego.&#8221;<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Several boxes of Lego on pallets in a large shed\" class=\"Image_image__5tFYM ContentImage_image__DQ_cq\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/6c9186573a4bce80887432f66cd005a5.jpeg\" loading=\"lazy\" data-component=\"Image\" data-lazy=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"Typography_base__sj2RP FigureCaption_text__zDxQ5 Typography_sizeMobile12__w_FPC Typography_lineHeightMobile20___U7Vr Typography_regular__WeIG6 Typography_colourInherit__dfnUx\" data-component=\"Typography\">Police used two horse floats and 15 pallets to move the Lego sets seized from Dudley Park. (Supplied: SA Police)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">A 34-year-old woman and 42-year-old man at the property were arrested and charged with theft and were bailed to appear in the Port Adelaide Magistrates Court next month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">In a <a class=\"Link_link__kR0xA Link_link__5eL5m ScreenReaderOnly_srLinkHint__OysWz Link_showVisited__C1Fea Link_showFocus__ALyv2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2025-09-02\/man-arrested-for-theft-of-lego-in-adelaide\/105724336\" data-component=\"Link\" data-uri=\"coremedia:\/\/article\/105724336\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">separate case last year<\/a>, police arrested a 41-year-old man after finding $250,000 worth of Lego and toys they allege were stolen from departments stores across Adelaide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man and a women have been arrested after police discovered $320,000 worth of allegedly stolen Lego sets&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":579028,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[45387,1108,16497,43,32620,44,283938,1158,44375,5216,10174,70264,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-579027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-arrest","tag-court","tag-haul","tag-headlines","tag-lego","tag-news","tag-pallets","tag-police","tag-raid","tag-retail","tag-sa-police","tag-stolen","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579027","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=579027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/579028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=579027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=579027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}