{"id":281503,"date":"2026-04-23T04:57:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T04:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/281503\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T04:57:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T04:57:13","slug":"scammer-in-orange-county-replaced-legos-with-pasta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/281503\/","title":{"rendered":"Scammer in Orange County replaced Legos with pasta?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(KGTV) \u2014 A story that caught our eye claims a scammer in Orange County replaced Legos with pasta.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s true.<\/p>\n<p>Irvine Police say a man was buying Lego sets from Target stores, removing the pieces and figurines from the boxes and then returning the sets to the stores.<\/p>\n<p>In some cases, he replaced the pieces with dried pasta.<\/p>\n<p>Police say he did it at least 70 times, costing Target around $34,000.<\/p>\n<p>In an online post, Irvine Police said &#8220;If your master plan involves swapping Legos for linguine, we can promise it will be cooked al dente&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(KGTV) \u2014 A story that caught our eye claims a scammer in Orange County replaced Legos with pasta.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":281504,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164],"class_list":["post-281503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}