{"id":875276,"date":"2026-08-31T18:10:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T18:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/875276\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T18:10:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T18:10:12","slug":"man-stabbed-during-pokemon-card-meet-up-in-melbourne-carpark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/875276\/","title":{"rendered":"Man stabbed during Pok\u00e9mon card meet-up in Melbourne carpark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man has been assaulted in a car park in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nine.com.au\/topic\/melbourne-ch7\" class=\"sc-ZStEl fijHCo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Melbourne\u2019s<\/a> inner-city during a meeting to trade <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nine.com.au\/australia-news\/a-current-affair\/pokemon-shop-employee-accused-of-card-con-20260810-p60n0k.html\" class=\"sc-ZStEl fijHCo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pok\u00e9mon cards<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Police were called to a car park near Elizabeth and Lennox streets in Richmond about midnight on August 22 following reports a 29-year-old man had suffered injuries to his face.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/ba18a8fd2445be27db0b7679a11f82221c42367fbf7d22f404eaa3241b1cf9f5.jpeg\"  width=\"100%\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"_0b53bae146db0b62 _7475dd3391ee1518\" style=\"--text-color:var(--color-text-secondary)\">The men met up in a Richmond car park (pictured) on August 22.\u00a0Supplied<\/p>\n<p>It is understood the victim was meeting up with another man to trade Pok\u00e9mon cards when the assault took place.<\/p>\n<p>The man was taken to hospital with a slash wound to his face.<\/p>\n<p>He needed surgery to treat the injury, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.3aw.com.au\/man-suffers-serious-injuries-after-machete-attack-in-melbournes-inner-east\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"sc-ZStEl fijHCo\">according to 3AW.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Pokemon cards laid out with the logo facing out.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1c52644d188ea4ef310976e59cbdd9a66fd89169.jpeg\"  width=\"100%\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"_0b53bae146db0b62 _7475dd3391ee1518\" style=\"--text-color:var(--color-text-secondary)\">It is understood the assault took place during a pre-arranged meeting to trade Pok\u00e9mon cards. \u00a0iStock<\/p>\n<p>The offender fled the scene and no arrests have been made, police said.<\/p>\n<p>An investigation into the alleged assault remains ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDetectives have follow-up enquiries to make in relation to the person involved,\u201d Victoria Polices said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has been assaulted in a car park in Melbourne\u2019s inner-city during a meeting to trade Pok\u00e9mon&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":875277,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-875276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=875276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875276\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/875277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=875276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=875276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=875276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}