{"id":190282,"date":"2026-02-23T18:34:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T18:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/190282\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T18:34:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T18:34:09","slug":"thieves-steal-180000-worth-of-pokemon-cards-from-anaheim-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/190282\/","title":{"rendered":"Thieves steal $180,000 worth of Pok\u00e9mon cards from Anaheim store"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Thieves stole roughly $180,000 worth of Pok\u00e9mon cards from an Anaheim collectibles store<\/a> in an early-morning break-in, Fox 11 Los Angeles reported.<\/p>\n

The local station said that four suspects broke into Do-We Collectibles on Harbor Boulevard around 3 a.m. on Feb. 18 after first smashing the glass door of a neighboring insurance office and cutting through a shared wall to gain entry.<\/p>\n

Once inside, the suspects shattered display cases and targeted high-value trading cards<\/a>, including at least one card valued at $10,000.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Fox 11 reported<\/a> that the business has been broken into twice in the past six months.<\/p>\n

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The thieves gained access to Do-We Collectibles by cutting a whole in the wall of an adjoining business. (Do-We Collectibles)<\/p>\n

The Anaheim Police Department did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital\u2019s request for comment.<\/p>\n

Vincent Bui, who works with the shop, told the outlet that the suspects appeared to have scoped out the location beforehand.<\/p>\n

“They had come in during the daytime and scouted the area, knew where the display cases are, knew where to go, knew what our weaknesses are<\/a>,” he said.<\/p>\n

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Thieves left Do-We collectibles strewn with merchandise after stealing thousands of dollars worth of Pok\u00e9mon cards. (Do-We Collectibles)<\/p>\n

One of the suspects dropped an unlocked cellphone inside the store, which investigators were able to use as evidence.<\/p>\n

ABC 7 reported<\/a> that the suspects escaped in a dark-colored sedan and were able to grab hundreds of trading cards in less than 10 minutes.<\/p>\n

“They took a lot of smaller, single cards, and we have a lot of those so it does add up to a lot … big amount of merchandise was stolen here,” said owner Duy Pham. “All of our display cases were empty.”<\/p>\n

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The break-in caused significant damage to Do-We Collectibles and some of its remaining valuable Pok\u00e9mon cards. (Do-We Collectibles)<\/p>\n

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Pham told the outlet that his store did have surveillance cameras and other security measures.<\/p>\n

“We expected that something was going to happen sooner or later,” he said. “In this business, we have a target on our back where … we cannot sleep well at night because sooner or later, we’re going to get a break-in.”<\/p>\n

Ashley Carnahan is a writer at Fox News Digital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Thieves stole roughly $180,000 worth of Pok\u00e9mon cards from an…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":190283,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164,7,3431,4518],"class_list":{"0":"post-190282","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","11":"tag-california","12":"tag-crime-world","13":"tag-robbery-theft"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190282","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=190282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190282\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}