Under the cover of night, thieves executed a heist at a San Jose trading card store in California.
They entered, one crawling to avoid detection, and swiftly took over 35,000 Pokémon cards.
Tofu’s Trading, the store, captured the unusual break-in on surveillance footage at 2 am on January 24.
The Theft Was Not Targeted
The theft was not targeted as the thieves didn’t know exactly what to take and how to execute their operation.
The store’s co-owner and manager, Amy Simpson, said there was a fridge blocking the entrance from the side door, and that is what makes him think it was not a targeted attack at all.
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Estimated Worth
Tofu’s Trading estimates that the stolen Pokémon Cards are worth tens of thousands of dollars.
The store owners were so shocked by the entire episode of a robbery that they made a video and put it on social media.
“They can take our products, but they can never take away our love of running a local hobby store in our community.” the store said on Instagram.