A Florida man who several years ago was charged with stealing $2 million worth of Lego sets has landed in the DuPage County Jail for allegedly stealing paint brushes.
DuPage prosecutors said Thursday they have charged Ignatius M. Pollara, 49, of Tamarac, Fla., with felony burglary after he was allegedly caught stealing brushes from a Hobby Lobby in Lombard on July 3.
He was charged with felony burglary and is being held in the county jail in lieu of $125,000 bail.
Prosecutors said authorities had been tipped that Pollara would be traveling to Illinois from Florida, and he was apprehended with the brushes hidden in his pants near the small of his back as he left the store on Roosevelt Road.
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Ignatius M. Pollara, 49, goes from stealing over $2,000,000.00 in Legos to stealing a few paint brushes.... In this Obama economy even the thieves are downsizing
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