Overview
- Watauga officers arrested 28-year-old Winston Love after he allegedly left a Target with about $1,300 in Lego merchandise and surrendered following a brief standoff.
- Investigators say 23 local incidents were logged in the past two months and more than 80 additional thefts are being tracked across North Texas and into Oklahoma.
- A subsequent search of a residence recovered additional stolen property, with police reporting a seized vehicle, roughly $5,000 in cash, and illegal narcotics.
- Authorities said the thefts totaled more than $37,000 across 14 cities, and they listed locations from Dallas and Fort Worth to Frisco, Grapevine, Temple and Harker Heights.
- Love is being held in the Tarrant County jail on a state jail felony theft charge and eight outstanding felony warrants as the multiagency probe continues.