{"id":576533,"date":"2026-04-02T03:21:35","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T03:21:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/576533\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T03:21:35","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T03:21:35","slug":"vancouver-police-arrest-pokemon-card-theft-suspect-who-allegedly-bear-sprayed-sellers-nanaimonewsnow-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/576533\/","title":{"rendered":"Vancouver police arrest Pok\u00e9mon card theft suspect who allegedly bear sprayed sellers | NanaimoNewsNOW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1775100095_349_imageRedirect.jpeg\" class=\"object-fit-cover\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A security camera watches over Team Collectors store in Richmond B.C., on Monday, March 9, 2026. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Ethan Cairns<\/p>\n<p>By The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tApr 1, 2026 | 4:57 PM\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>VANCOUVER \u2014 Vancouver police say a man has been arrested after a series of robberies where the alleged thief bear sprayed unsuspecting sellers of high-value Pok\u00e9mon cards. <\/p>\n<p>Police say there have been five robberies since March 23 involving transactions set up on Facebook marketplace to sell Pok\u00e9mon cards, some of which are worth \u201cthousands of dollars.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The department says the suspect arranged to meet people in public to buy the cards, then used bear spray on the victims before stealing their cards and running away. <\/p>\n<p>Police say they made the arrest after communicating with the suspect online and arranging to meet to sell Pok\u00e9mon cards. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A security camera watches over Team Collectors store in Richmond B.C., on Monday, March 9, 2026. THE CANADIAN&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":576337,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194298],"tags":[879,49,48,2467,2461,2468,2460,2462,2463,44,2464,2465,2466,82,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-576533","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-vancouver","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-central-vancouver-island","12":"tag-nanaimo","13":"tag-nanaimo-breaking-news","14":"tag-nanaimo-news","15":"tag-nanaimo-news-now","16":"tag-nanaimonewsnow","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-oceanside","19":"tag-parksville","20":"tag-qualicum","21":"tag-sports","22":"tag-vancouver"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=576533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576533\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/576337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=576533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=576533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}