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An alleged would-be thief who attempted to steal the game code of a game not yet for sale at the recent PAX East conference has been hit with an arrest warrant after failing to appear for an arraignment this morning in Boston Municipal Court. Justin D. May, 20, of Wilmington, Del., was arrested just prior to 4 p.m. Sunday by the Boston Police Department for allegedly attempting to steal a copy of the yet-to-be released game "Breach" from PAX exhibitor Atomic Games, a division of Destineer Computer Corp. of Minnesota.
May was charged after his arrest Sunday with larceny over $250 and with obtaining stolen trade secrets. According to website Joystiq, which quotes Atomic Games officials, May allegedly plugged his laptop into one of the systems on which Atomic Games was running Breach, and managed to download approximately 14 percent of the game code before he was stopped. The site reports he fled when confronted and was detained by Hynes Convention Center security until the police took him into custody.
The Suffolk County District Attorney’s office said that May paid $200 bail at the Boston Police Station was ordered to appear for arraignment in the Boston Municipal Court this morning. When he failed to appear, a judge issued a warrant for his arrest. According to Joystiq, the website knows May’s Xbox Live gamertag, and wherever he is, he was playing the game Modern Warfare 2 as of 3:30 this afternoon.
According to the police report of May’s arrest, the game code was valued at $6 million by Atomic Games.
The Penny Arcade Expo, called PAX, came to Boston for the first time in its eight-year history this past weekend, bringing 60,000 gaming-focused attendees to the Hynes, and instantly becoming the second-largest ongoing convention scheduled for the first half of a year in all of Boston. .
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