Thieves steal $180K in Pokémon cards after cutting through wall at Anaheim collectibles store

Thieves stole astir $180,000 worthy of Pokémon cards from an Anaheim collectibles store successful an early-morning break-in, Fox 11 Los Angeles reported.

The section presumption said that 4 suspects broke into Do-We Collectibles connected Harbor Boulevard astir 3 a.m. connected Feb. 18 aft archetypal smashing the solid doorway of a neighboring security bureau and cutting done a shared partition to summation entry.

Once inside, the suspects shattered show cases and targeted high-value trading cards, including astatine slightest 1 paper valued astatine $10,000. 

Fox 11 reported that the concern has been breached into doubly successful the past six months.

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The thieves gained entree to Do-We Collectibles by cutting a full successful the partition of an adjoining business. (Do-We Collectibles)

The Anaheim Police Department did not instantly respond to Fox News Digital’s petition for comment.

Vincent Bui, who works with the shop, told the outlet that the suspects appeared to person scoped retired the determination beforehand.

"They had travel successful during the daytime and scouted the area, knew wherever the show cases are, knew wherever to go, knew what our weaknesses are," helium said.

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Thieves near Do-We collectibles strewn with merchandise aft stealing thousands of dollars worthy of Pokémon cards. (Do-We Collectibles)

One of the suspects dropped an unlocked cellphone wrong the store, which investigators were capable to usage arsenic evidence.

ABC 7 reported that the suspects escaped successful a dark-colored sedan and were capable to drawback hundreds of trading cards successful little than 10 minutes.

"They took a batch of smaller, azygous cards, and we person a batch of those truthful it does adhd up to a batch ... large magnitude of merchandise was stolen here," said proprietor Duy Pham. "All of our show cases were empty."

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The break-in caused important harm to Do-We Collectibles and immoderate of its remaining invaluable Pokémon cards. (Do-We Collectibles)

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Pham told the outlet that his store did person surveillance cameras and different information measures.

"We expected that thing was going to hap sooner oregon later," helium said. "In this business, we person a people connected our backmost wherever ... we cannot slumber good astatine nighttime due to the fact that sooner oregon later, we're going to get a break-in."