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Quote:A federal grand jury indicted a former Nevada man Wednesday on charges accusing him of stealing hundreds of thousand of dollars of "Lego" merchandise from stores in at least five states and reselling it on the Internet.

William A. Swanberg, 41, Hillsboro, Ore., allegedly obtained the Lego building blocks and other goods illegally for much less than the legitimate price by placing counterfeit bar code labels over the real labels before paying for them at check-out stand...

The federal grand jury in Reno indicted him on six counts of mail fraud and six counts of wire fraud, Bogden said Wednesday.

Swanberg was living in Reno when he is alleged to have carried out the scam from June 1, 2005 to Nov. 16, 2005...

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