A group of smash-and-grab thieves in the Bay Area managed to get away with thousands of dollars worth of Pokemon trading cards in under a minute.
It happened on Saturday night at The Card Lab in Brentwood, California where a group of three broke into the specialty trading card and collectibles store and stole $15,000 worth of the cards, Brentwood Police Department told ABC7.
Surveillance footage from the store's RING camera system captured the trio all dressed in black inside the store, hopping over the counter and dumping tons of the cards into giant plastic garbage bags.
The burglars smashed through a glass display case containing the valuable cards in the Pokemon heist that took just 39 seconds to commit before driving away, per police. Together the trio worked quickly to gut the store of boxes and boxes of the highly-sought after trading cards.
I wonder who their fence is for this stuff...
Well, they aren't going to be stealing books or workboots.
ReplyDeleteI don't think the "usual suspects" are into Pokemon trading cards.
ReplyDeletePokemon trading cards, Negro please !
ReplyDeleteGreat minds! Inside job, love to see insurance filing.
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Billy, he's a real card sharp in the fifth grade, over at Eastside Elementary. Kid knows the value of every Pokemon.
ReplyDeleteDon't cross him. He has ways.
For those unfamiliar with California geography, this didn't happen in one of the blue crapholes like Oakland, or SF, or LA, or even Stockton - Brentwood is a middle- to upper-middleclass suburb, almost exurb, about 40 miles from Oakland.
ReplyDeleteBrentwood has tons of section 8 housing. And the perps were latino and black, just saying.
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