Jarrelle Augustine, 28, was arrested in Irvine in connection with at least 70 Lego thefts at stores across the country.

Jarrelle Augustine, 28, is accused of pulling the scheme around 70 times at Target stores across the country, police said ...

Police accused the man of purchasing LEGO sets, opening and taking bricks from them, and then returning the boxes to Target ...

Jarrelle Augustine allegedly bought LEGO sets from Target, filled the boxes with dried pasta and returned them, resulting in ...

A California man carried out a scam by purchasing Lego sets, replacing the bricks with uncooked pasta, and returning the altered boxes for refunds, authorities said Thursday. The suspect, Jarrelle ...

A bizarre pasta-for-plastic scam unravels as police bust a LEGO thief with $34K in minifigures and a trail of swapped boxes ...

In a plan that seems doomed to fail, police say a California man bought $34,000 worth of Lego sets from Target. He then ...

Jarrelle Augustine of Paramount was arrested in connection with a nationwide Target theft ring involving $34,000 of Lego sets ...

"We are talking about durum wheat semolina pasta, and what we are calling a pasta-tively terrible plan," police wrote on ...

California police arrested a man accused of stealing $34,000 worth of high-end Lego sets and replacing the plastic bricks ...

Irvine police track a Lego theft suspect to Paramount. Detectives say he bought Lego sets, replaced pieces with dried pasta ...

Everything is not awesome for a grand theft suspect recently arrested in Irvine for allegedly stealing valuable LEGO ...