A trading card shop in Burbank says that they had been hit for greater than $100,000 in stolen Pokémon and sports cards during an in a single day burglary earlier this week.
LA Sports Cards, situated in the 1900 block of W. Olive Avenue, had the entrance door of their shop damaged by a crowbar earlier than a trio of burglars used energy instruments to bypass a bolted steel gate on Dec. 2.
“Total loss is many six figures,” mentioned Kiet Nguyen, the shop proprietor. “The perpetrators were in and out in two minutes. Quick.”
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Surveillance digital camera footage from within the shop reveals the three suspects dumping bins of Pokémon cards into trash baggage, ransacking cabinets during the method.
Though the shop specializes in shopping for, promoting and trading every kind of collectible cards, additionally they home a big assortment of sports memorabilia and cards.
“This is our blood, sweat, toil and tears,” TKTKT mentioned, noting that the thieves appeared particularly targeted on their unique Pokémon assortment. “It was Pokémon. It wasn’t One Piece, it wasn’t Disney, it wasn’t Magic, it was Pokémon.”
Nguyen mentioned that the burglars additionally took off with “a lot of sports cards” that had been locked up in the again of the shop.
“Some of those are really, really expensive,” he mentioned.
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Inside the locked field they took from the again was a one-of-ten Cristiano Ronaldo card, which he estimates is value greater than $100,000 by itself.
“It feels like a violation,” Nguyen mentioned. “This is like our home. Feels like someone went in our home, ransacked our things. It was personal to that level.”
Police haven’t but responded to CBS Los Angeles’ request for touch upon the investigation.