Whoops. Philadelphia-area Gamefly members who have been wondering why in the hell they never got their rented copies of Cooking Mama finally have some answers. The culprit, 34 year old Reginald Johnson of Germantown, PA, stole some 2,200 Gamefly games while working as a mail-processing clerk between April and September of 2008.
The total value of the stolen games is $86,000. Johnson apparently traded many of the games in to GameStop for store credit, as authorities found several consoles and GameStop receipts in his SUV. Oh speaking of his SUV, he sped off in it when federal agents initially tried to arrest him. He eventually crashed the vehicle and took off running before being caught.
He had a duffel bag with him containing 81 Gamefly games and a search of his car turned up 79 additional games along with a bunch of stuff from GameStop. Johnson is facing 12 to 18 months in prison with sentencing to take place on January 13th.
Ex-mail handler admits theft of video games in envelopes [Philly.com via Kotaku]
Just 12 months in prison?
I have to work like 3 years to take home $86k (take out taxes and it’s more like 5).
Kinda seems worth it!?
It does at first, but then you have federal agents after you, I’m sure that doesn’t look good on your record. 12 months aint bad but I wouldn’t want to be in prison that long no matter how much time. Thats my 2 cents, take it or leave it.
2,200 games lost in one area in about a 6 month span? What kind of losses is gamefly used to experiencing?
Yeah, but if you bought all of those games legit, you might be able to get a nice discount off the sticker price. I’m sure street value is much lower.
lmao @ the photo – nice work!
I’ve heard of several friends and myself having games magically turn up missing from Gamefly. I wouldn’t be surprised if this was a lot more common than people think.
I’ve filed plenty of missing game reports here in Philly – time frame seems right also