The “Pokémon Trading Card Game” still has a booming trading market. Whenever a new series of card packs are officially released, it almost triggers a rush to buy. However, because there are such huge business opportunities and interests behind it, some criminal incidents related to “Pokémon” cards have also emerged one after another. However, recent new incidents have once again completely disappointed players.
For example, a game card store in New York, USA, had a robbery that shocked the gamer community earlier this year. A group of masked gangsters stormed into the store with guns claiming that the card store was holding an event, and stole a large number of high-priced rare cards brought by players for display. Last week, another even more exaggerated and clumsy case occurred in Florida, USA.
According to KSL reports, a 33-year-old Florida man named Clayton Warren tried to break into a local card store on the evening of May 21 to steal. At first, he used a rock to smash the window. After that failed, he took out a cordless chainsaw and tried again, and finally successfully sneaked in.
After reviewing the surveillance video, the store owner estimated that the total value of the stolen Pokémon cards was about $12,000. Not only that, he also found a figure similar to Clayton Warren in the surveillance video on the 19th, suggesting that he had come to observe the terrain beforehand. Fortunately, investigators quickly used the license plate captured on the surveillance camera and the blood stains at the scene to successfully identify Clayton Warren, and then went to his residence to arrest him. He was eventually charged with two counts of “burglary” and “theft.”
This incident became another crime related to “Pokémon” cards in recent years. In addition to the two mentioned above, in December last year, goods worth $100,000 were stolen from a store in Burbank, California. At the time, California police even publicly stated that they suspected that the theft was related to “six” similar cases that had occurred in Southern California in the past few weeks. In the past year, many other similar cases have occurred across the United States.
Source: KOCPC Chinese