{"id":334391,"date":"2026-06-13T00:56:34","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T00:56:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/334391\/"},"modified":"2026-06-13T00:56:34","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T00:56:34","slug":"man-28-sentenced-to-45-years-after-stealing-more-than-200-lego-sets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/334391\/","title":{"rendered":"Man, 28, sentenced to 45 years after stealing more than 200 Lego sets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/topic\/tarrant-county\/?utm_source=paid_marketing&amp;utm_medium=google&amp;utm_campaign=content_acquisition&amp;gad_source=1&amp;gad_campaignid=22928361491&amp;gbraid=0AAAAADjVYgGqMiFs_mb9i4veQ3on-eZXu&amp;gclid=CjwKCAjwuanRBhBSEiwAY5y6V9QiIJ7wYd-e2jPuYWFoqRpsv_kYG7G7XOtonZdK1BwfOfbrkpDi4hoCo9kQAvD_BwE\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tarrant County<\/a> jury sentenced a 28-year-old man to 45 years in prison after finding him guilty of stealing over 200\u00a0Lego sets and other retail products from multiple Target locations.<\/p>\n<p>Along with Legos, Love stole about a dozen coffee makers as well as vacuum cleaners and Playstation controllers, according to the Tarrant County district attorney&#8217;s office.\u00a0The products totaled over $30,000.<\/p>\n<p>Organized retail theft is considered a second-degree felony if the total value of the stolen property is $30,000 or more but less than $150,000. According to court documents, Love pleaded not guilty.<\/p>\n<p>Love was arrested by\u00a0Watauga police on Oct. 31, 2025, after fleeing a Mansfield Target at 8000 Denton Highway when employees reported that\u00a0he\u00a0had stolen more than $1,200 in\u00a0Lego merchandise. He was taken to the North Richland Hills Detention Center and booked on Nov. 2, court records show.<\/p>\n<p>Police said they later learned Love had eight outstanding felony warrants for theft-related offenses from multiple jurisdictions, including\u00a0Tarrant, Dallas and Rockwall counties.<\/p>\n<p>At the time of Love&#8217;s arrest, he was suspected of committing 23 thefts at Target stores in 14 Texas cities including Dallas,\u00a0Watauga, Irving, Plano, Fort Worth, Flower Mound, Lewisville, Frisco, Grapevine, Euless, Arlington, Mansfield, Temple and Harker Heights, police previously said.<\/p>\n<p>Police said they believe Love is connected to an organized retail theft ring operating in Texas and Oklahoma.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Tarrant County jury sentenced a 28-year-old man to 45 years in prison after finding him guilty of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":254960,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[1638,116,118,117,89217],"class_list":["post-334391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-brief","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news","tag-tp-tarrant-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334391","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=334391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}