The Sydney Morning Herald wrote:An Australian who allegedly sold about $78,000 worth of LA Lakers basketball season tickets to buyers who never received them was charged with grand theft, US authorities said.
Scott Raymond Thomas, 26, was arrested at Los Angeles International Airport yesterday after he stepped off a plane, said Deputy District Attorney Jeff McGrath.
Thomas is to appear in court on on three charges of grand theft and two of attempted grand theft. If convicted, he could face up to five years in a Californian prison.
And here we were thinking that nobody else in Australia cared about basketball anymore...
