{"id":332780,"date":"2026-06-11T22:21:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T22:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/332780\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T22:21:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T22:21:08","slug":"man-sentenced-to-45-years-after-50-day-lego-and-retail-theft-spree-across-north-texas-and-oklahoma-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/332780\/","title":{"rendered":"Man sentenced to 45 years after 50\u2011day LEGO and retail theft spree across North Texas and Oklahoma, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A repeat offender who authorities say stole hundreds of LEGO sets and electronics during a 50\u2011day <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/texas\/tag\/crime\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">retail\u2011theft spree<\/a> stretching from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/texas\/tag\/north-texas\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Dallas\u2011Fort Worth<\/a> to Oklahoma in 2025 has been sentenced to 45 years in prison.<\/p>\n<p>Before the sentencing, Winston Love faced more than $1.3 million in bonds across multiple jurisdictions, according to the Watauga Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>Theft trail began in Watauga<\/p>\n<p>The case began with the theft of LEGO sets from a Target in Watauga. Investigators later linked Love to thefts across Dallas\u2011Fort Worth, Denton County, and Oklahoma, police said.<\/p>\n<p>During the crime spree, authorities said Love was accused of taking more than 200 LEGO sets, about a dozen coffee makers, several vacuum cleaners, and multiple PlayStation controllers, totaling more than $30,000.<\/p>\n<p>The case was tried in Tarrant County last week, where a jury found Love guilty.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, a Tarrant County jury sentenced Love to 45 years in prison and ordered him to pay a $10,000 fine.<\/p>\n<p>Agencies coordinated investigation<\/p>\n<p>In addition to Watauga police, investigating agencies included the Tarrant County District Attorney&#8217;s Office and police departments in Euless, Grapevine, and Mansfield.<\/p>\n<p>CBS News Texas will provide updates when more information becomes available.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A repeat offender who authorities say stole hundreds of LEGO sets and electronics during a 50\u2011day retail\u2011theft spree&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":332781,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[294,430,27,29,28],"class_list":["post-332780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-crime","tag-north-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332780\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/332781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}