The case began to unfold when a college president purchased a used copy of Tom Wolfe‘s I Am Charlotte Simmons from Amazon.com and discovered that it had a library stamp with a due date of December 26. Authorities in Oregon have subsequently arrested Charles Wayne Gray, 60, a part-time employee of the Clackamas County Library and the Tigard Public Library, and charged him with the theft of “more than 1,000 library books, CDs and videotapes” from the libraries he worked for and selling them on Amazon. As Emily Tsao reports in a story for The Oregonian, police found 700 library books and CDs in Gray’s home, and he is believed to have made “at least $10,000” via Internet sales over the last six months. According to authorities, “Gray would check out books, then tap into the library computer system and record them as returned. As the operation grew, Gray used a second name, ‘Lock Brown,’ to help cover his trail. Gray would also scan the Internet to find out what items were in demand and then go to the library to check them out.” Library officials, meanwhile, have told Greenville College president Jim Mannoia to keep the purloined copy of Charlotte Simmons with their compliments for helping them uncover the scheme. Tsao also notes that Gray had been featured in a 2003 Oregonian story about unemployement— Gray was profiled because he “donned a clown suit and handed out business cards in downtown Portland with the hopes of getting a job.”