An Anaheim trading cards shop has become the latest victim in a string of burglaries at businesses that sell valuable collectibles, including Pok\u00e9mon cards. <\/p>\n
According to security camera video exclusively obtained by NBC Los Angeles, a group of men broke into a business earlier this week to eventually to get to Duy’s Collectibles, a card shop next door on Harbor Boulevard. <\/p>\n
The burglars appeared to know exactly what they were after: cameras inside an insurance company show the men breaking into the business but didn’t take anything from the insurance firm. Instead, they took a sledgehammer and broke right through the drywall into Duy’s Collectibles. <\/p>\n
“When I heard the notification on my phone my heart was pounding,” Duy Pham, the owner of Duy’s Collectibles, said. “As soon as I see the alarm, I click on it on the footage. The live footage shows someone coming through the hole right there.”<\/p>\n
The gaping hole in Pham’s drywall is how the three masked men broke into his collectibles shop at 3 a.m. Tuesday. <\/p>\n
Pham’s nine security cameras captured the men working quickly through the store, grabbing several hundred Pok\u00e9mon cards.<\/p>\n
“They took a lot of smaller single cards,” Pham said. “Those add up a lot.”<\/p>\n
The men were in and out of his store in less than two minutes, Pham said, walking out of the shop with $180,000 worth of Pok\u00e9mon cards. <\/p>\n
“In this business, we have a target on our backs where we cannot sleep well at night. Sooner or later we’re going to get a break-in,” Pham said. “I feel we work very hard just to build this small community as a hobby that we love. It\u2019s very sad when something like that happened.” \u00a0<\/p>\n
Outside cameras captured the burglars getting away in a dark-colored older model Honda.<\/p>\n
Anaheim investigators said they are working a number of leads. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Anaheim trading cards shop has become the latest victim in a string of burglaries at businesses that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":185432,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164],"class_list":{"0":"post-185431","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-anaheim","8":"tag-anaheim","9":"tag-anaheim-headlines","10":"tag-anaheim-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185431\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}