Just Pinned to Domestic and Global News: Owner of largest STAR WARS memorabilia collection robbed... Los Angeles (AFP) - The owner of the largest collection of Star Wars memorabilia said on Monday a longtime friend had robbed him of more than 100 items including rare vintage US and foreign carded action figures. Steve Sansweet who runs Rancho Obi-Wan a non-profit museum north of San Francisco said the theft took place over several months in late 2015 through 2016. "There were more than 100 valuable items stolen the majority of them vintage US and foreign carded action figures many of them rare and important pieces" Sansweet said in a statement. Sansweet a former Wall Street Journal reporter who worked for 15 years as head of fan relations at Lucasfilm before retiring in 2011 identified the suspect as Carl Cunningham a well-known Star Wars collector and R2-D2 builder from Marietta Georgia. A spokesman for the Sonoma County Sheriff's Office confirmed to AFP that Cunningham on March 13 had been charged with felony grand theft. Reading from the charge sheet Sergeant Spencer Crum said Cunningham had visited Sansweet three times in the past year "and had access to Sansweet's museum as he
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