An aggressive, nationwide campaign by New Zealand police to stop the theft of rare books is landing some New Zealand booksellers in court. As a story from New Zealand wire service Stuff reports, 75-year-old John Arnold Palmer, owner of Arnold Books In Christchurch, has been charged with receiving stolen books as a result of ” a police operation which targeted a ring of thieves alleged to have plundered valuable books from libraries and museums the length of the country.” The case comes on the heels of last week’s sentencing of another bookstore owner, Barry Richard Hancox, to community service and reparation fees for similar charges. So far, the police effort, known as “Operation Pukapuka,” has “recovered 1640 books with an estimated value of $500,000.”