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The Birmingham Mail has reported"A huge haulage of toys , collectibles and old comic strip worth over £ 500,000 were stolen from an on-line retail merchant ’s storage whole . Thieves swiped good include Marvel , Star Wars and Transformers action figure in the raid on the Wolverhampton unit last calendar month . The steal haul was afterwards retrieve by cops investigating large - plate burglary across the Black Country and Cheshire , which are believed to be colligate . Raids carried out by the West Midlands force bring out tens of thousands of box filled with stolen goods including action figures , Game of Thrones token , dining table game , spell collectibles from across the globe and comics date back decades . The haul had been stolen from an industrial whole in Wolverhampton – where they were being store by an online retailer which trades worldwide – and from an associated electrical distributor ’s warehouse in Runcorn . "
We fuck a distributor base in Runcorn , do n’t we , children ? Diamond UK.Who last month reported a major larceny , the investigation of which delayed bringing to mirthful storehouse . At the timewe listed some of the Star Wars and Marvel itemsthat had been steal , but knew there was much more . Mike Holman of Diamond UK told us at the time " The thieves also managed to get away with my own sign transcript of Taschen ’s Stan Lee ledger , a Hot miniature full - exfoliation Thanos Gauntlet , a HUGE accumulation of UK pocket library – War / Battle / Commando etc and my accumulation of UK comics from the 1960 ’s – Lion / Knockout / Smash / Hurricane etc . Plus our Diamond offices are now unhappily leave out our own Caped Crusader ! "
The Mail reports that policefound £ 200,000 worth of stock inside trailers on a storage yard , that they were evidence about other stolen collectibles being sold online , which lead to a raid on a line of work unit of measurement in Yorkshire , impound thousands of stolen goods and the stay of a 42 - year - sometime man on suspicion of care stolen goods .
They quote DCEmily - Jane Parker , from CID , saying " We ’ve contend to seize and bring back a immense haul of stolen goods drive during the burglaries . We retrieve ten of thousands of boxes packed full of toys and collectibles which would have made hundreds of thousands of pounds if all sold on . We think these were steal as part of an devise surgical procedure which touch upon not only the West Midlands , but elsewhere in the country . We know the fiscal and emotional wallop of being a burglary dupe and we ’re proud of to have recover such a substantial amount of ' hot belongings . The business owners told us it has returned their livelihoods and we ’re humbled to have been able to do so – specially give the shock of the pandemic . But we wo n’t let up until we catch and charge those responsible and our enquiries are very much ongoing . "
Diamond UK did not respond to inquiry made over the weekend .
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