Owner of largest ‘Star Wars’ memorabilia collection robbed
Steve Sansweet. PHOTO: FILE
The owners of a largest collection of Star Wars memorabilia, suggested on Monday that a longtime crony had attacked him of some-more than 100 items, including singular selected US and unfamiliar carded movement figures.
Steve Sansweet, who runs Rancho Obi-Wan, a non-profit museum north of San Francisco that houses some-more than 400,000 Star Wars collectibles, pronounced a burglary took place over several months in late 2015 by 2016.
“We’re blank about 120 to 130 equipment value some $200,000,” he told AFP. He pronounced a infancy of a equipment stolen are selected US and unfamiliar carded movement figures, and many of them rare.
Sansweet, a former Wall Street Journal contributor who worked for 15 years as conduct of fan family during Lucasfilm before timid in 2011, identified a think as Carl Cunningham, a well-known Star Wars gourmet and R2-D2 builder from Marietta, Georgia.
“I’ve famous him for 20 years,” Sansweet said. “He common a hospitality, he stayed with us, he ate a food, he had a run of a museum as few people had since we devoted him, and he turns around and does something like this.”
A orator for a Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office reliable to AFP that Cunningham on Mar 13 had been charged with transgression grand burglary and was giveaway on bail.
Reading from a assign sheet, Sergeant Spencer Crum pronounced Cunningham had visited Sansweet several times and had easy entrance to a collection recgonised by Guinness World Records as a largest in a universe “as he willingly dusted pieces and did cleanup work around a museum.”
The burglary came to light after a vital gourmet and owners of several Star Wars websites lifted a alarm on finding that one of his collectibles – a singular antecedent rocket-firing Boba Fett movement figure – was stolen from his Texas warehouse.
A fondle play subsequently came brazen to contend he had purchased a object as good as a series of other singular Star Wars collectibles from Cunningham.
Sansweet pronounced Cunningham had sent him email and content messages revelation a theft. “He says … he’s in therapy and seeking to know himself and apologises,” Sansweet said.
“To have a crony come in and do something like this, it could destroy your faith in humanity,” he added, appealing to anyone who might have purchased any stolen Star Wars collectibles to come forward.
“It is a idea to solve this conditions as fast as probable and to continue to use a collection during Rancho Obi-Wan to ‘Inspire by a Force’ notwithstanding a drop caused by one person,” he said.
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