Darth Vader, the dark enforcer in the Star Wars movies, was up to no good in Hokitika at the weekend - he was caught on camera using a stolen credit card.
A police spokesman said the card was stolen from a house in Dunollie on Saturday and then used on four separate occasions at a supermarket ATM in Hokitika.
Police have viewed surveillance camera footage and identified the thief only as someone of unknown gender, dressed in a black Darth Vader costume.
The thief from the dark side withdrew a "considerable" sum of cash from the machine at 12.27pm, then six minutes later at 12.33pm made another withdrawal.
Two and a half hours later Darth was back at the ATM machine to make another withdrawal at 3.12pm, and finally two minutes later.
