- For the clerks at B.J.'s Wholesale Club in Leominster, Mass., the phantom menace seemed pretty real in 1999. Toting handguns instead of light sabers, two men dressed as Darth Maul burst into the superstore and took $80,000 in cash and merchandise, according to police. The hooded villains then stole a clerk's pickup truck for their getaway. Detectives lifted prints off the truck and arrested Jason Palmer, 23, who was sentenced to 12 years in prison. The other costumed Sith Apprentice was never caught.
- Luke Skywalker was light-years away from Tatooine when he appeared in a Pennsylvania courtroom on charges of indecently assaulting a man in 2003, according to the Press Association News. The namesake, who appeared dressed in a navy T-shirt and trousers, nodded when the court clerk asked him, "Are you Luke Skywalker?" Skywalker denied the charges and was granted conditional bail.
- Though some might consider North Dakota a galaxy far, far away, police in Bismarck didn't believe a car thief who identified himself as Obi-Wan Kenobi. When officers captured the culprit in 2001, he claimed he was the venerable Jedi knight, saying, "I was just obeying orders from The Force," according to Road & Track. The thief went so far as to sign a police document as "Obi-Wan Kenobi," but officers resisted the apparent Jedi mind trick and arrested him anyway.
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