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Police: 3 Stole Xbox Games From Wal-Mart

Posted: 12:17 pm EDT June 23, 2009Updated: 5:37 pm EDT June 23, 2009

Police arrested three men Monday, charging them with stealing Xbox 360 games from 11 Wal-Mart stores in Georgia and Alabama.

Investigators said Levar Raymone Thornton, 29, of LaGrange, Tyrell Maurice Myers, 18, of Conley and Union City resident Michael Cunningham, 19, bought Xbox games at Wal-Mart, removed the real games and replaced them with a blank compact discs. The suspects then returned the games to Wal-Mart for cash refunds and sold the real games on eBay, according to police.

A fourth person may be involved in selling the games on line, police said.

The loss to Wal-Mart was estimated at about $10,000.

Officials said Myers and Cunningham are students at the University of West Georgia in Carrollton.

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