The bust includes many figures you'd recognize, such as many from the Siege line, like Shockwave, and even G1 reissues like Devastator. the items seized tallies up to a worth of over $30,000 in Canadian dollars (which is equal to 300 Devastator sets). The perpetrator has been arrested for fraud and theft. What he would do was make his own bar codes of much lower prices to scan at the self check out. This criminal strategy has been used in the past for Lego sets, and also lead to arrests.
Below are some quotes form the news article from CTV.
Charles Dale Glasier was taken into custody on November 7 by the Medicine Hat Police Service.
Investigators recovered over $30,000 worth of items, consisting mainly of Transformers action figure toys and a variety of DVDs and DVD box sets. The property is believed to have been taken from stores in Medicine Hat, Calgary, Lethbridge, Taber, Brooks, Drumheller and Swift Current.
Police believe Glasier obtained the items directly from retailers by fraudulent means for a fraction of their regular price. Officials say he was intending to sell the items for profit.
Glasier has been charged with one global count of fraud over $5,000 and possession of stolen property over $5,000. He is currently in custody awaiting a bail hearing.