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Alleged Lego scammer sold 2,100 boxes

This Lego castle represents the design of the giant cardboard castle that will be built in Cheney Aug. 18. (Courtesy of Jason Radtke / The Spokesman-Review)
This Lego castle represents the design of the giant cardboard castle that will be built in Cheney Aug. 18. (Courtesy of Jason Radtke / The Spokesman-Review)

The California software exec arrested for allegedly switching bar codes on high priced Lego sets resold them online through "TomsBrickyard," a site so popular with Lego buyers that they rated his service "excellent."

Thomas Langenbach, who was the vice president of SAP Labs Integration and Certification Center in Palo Alto, was arrested May 8 outside a Mountain View Target store.

In a plot more complex than a Lego Death Star set, police say Langenbach used a home computer and printer -- and lots of Legos – to amass a small fortune reselling the toys.

"Believe it or not this will be our first tech exec in a Lego case," Police Chief Scott Vermeer told ABC News. Full story.

Two of my four boys are Lego fiends. I am not.  Do you/did you enjoy playing with Legos?

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D.F. Oliveria started Huckleberries Online on Feb. 16, 2004. Oliveria's Sunday print Huckleberries is a past winner of the national Herb Caen Memorial Column contest.