Obiwan Kenobi Arrested For Hit & Run

**Dakota Valkyrie** · April 27th, 2012, 05:42 PM

Jedi-mind tricks apparently weren’t enough to keep Obiwan Kenobi out of the Placer County Jail.

Roseville police said that over the weekend they arrested a 37-year-old with the same name as the Star Wars character on suspicion of hit-and-run causing injury. Kenobi was also wanted on an unrelated charge of petty theft, authorities said.

Kenobi was arrested in connection with a five-vehicle crash that took place March 19 at Fairway and Rosehall drives.

Officers said that three vehicles were stopped in the straight-ahead lane of westbound Fairway when another vehicle stopped in the left-turn lane. A fifth vehicle, which was described as a green Toyota, collided with two cars it tried to merge between. The crash set off a chain-reaction, causing two other vehicle to be hit.

Police said the Toyota fled the area after the wreck.

An investigation led officers to Kenobi, who was arrested at his home on Saturday, authorities said.

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According to a 2008 article in the Lincoln News Messenger, Kenobi was born Benjamin Cale Feit.

He legally changed his name in 1999 after local radio station KWOD 106.5 held a contest stating the first person to come in with a legal document with the name Obiwan Kenobi on it would get $1,000.

Kenobi went to the DMV, filled out a form, paid a $12 fee and went down to the radio station to claim his prize. He has since kept the name.

http://auburnjournal.com/detail/206505.html

**HeatherHabilatory** · April 27th, 2012, 08:48 PM

The force is DUMB in this one!

**TKaz** · April 28th, 2012, 12:46 AM

OMG, I REMEMBER when this happened! It was all over the news when he had his name changed.
By now, you'd think he'd change it back...

**Whisper** · February 12th, 2013, 03:04 PM

Obiwan Kenobi

ROSEVILLE, CA - Obiwan Kenobi is back in the news again and not in a good way.

The Rocklin man with the same name as the Star Wars figure, was arrested last Wednesday morning in Roseville at a business complex on the 7200 block of Galilee Road, said Roseville police spokeswoman Dee Dee Gunther. She said a police officer stopped Kenobi on a probation search at 1:52 a.m. and reported finding methamphetamine and drug paraphernalia in Kenobi's possession.

Kenobi was arrested and booked into Placer County Jail on drug charges but has been released, Gunther said.

Kenobi was arrested last April for allegedly fleeing the scene of a hit and run crash in Roseville in March, 2012.

http://roseville.news10.net/news/cri...ion?hpt=ju_bn6