{"id":190582,"date":"2026-02-23T22:22:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T22:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/190582\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T22:22:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T22:22:07","slug":"thieves-steal-180k-in-pokemon-cards-after-cutting-through-wall-at-california-collectibles-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/190582\/","title":{"rendered":"Thieves steal $180K in Pok\u00e9mon cards after cutting through wall at California collectibles store"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thieves stole roughly $180,000 worth of Pok\u00e9mon cards from an\u00a0Anaheim collectibles store\u00a0in an early-morning break-in, Fox 11 Los Angeles reported.<\/p>\n<p>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<p>Once inside, the suspects shattered display cases and targeted\u00a0high-value trading cards, including at least one card valued at $10,000.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxla.com\/news\/pokemon-cards-stolen-anaheim\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Fox 11 reported<\/a>\u00a0that the business has been broken into twice in the past six months.<\/p>\n<p>The Anaheim Police Department did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital\u2019s request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Vincent Bui, who works with the shop, told the outlet that the suspects appeared to have scoped out the location beforehand.<\/p>\n<p>Thieves stole roughly $180,000 worth of Pok\u00e9mon cards from an\u00a0Anaheim collectibles store\u00a0in an early-morning break-in, according to reports. Instagram\/@dowecollectibles<\/p>\n<p>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. Instagram\/@dowecollectibles<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey had come in during the daytime and scouted the area, knew where the display cases are, knew where to go,\u00a0knew what our weaknesses are,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>One of the suspects dropped an unlocked cellphone inside the store, which investigators were able to use as evidence.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/abc7.com\/post\/thieves-carve-hole-drywall-steal-high-value-pokemon-cards-do-collectibles-store-anaheim-video\/18623417\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">ABC 7 reported<\/a>\u00a0that the suspects escaped in a dark-colored sedan and were able to grab hundreds of trading cards in less than 10 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>The business has been broken into twice in the past six months, according to reports. Instagram\/@dowecollectibles<\/p>\n<p>Reports\u00a0that the suspects escaped in a dark-colored sedan and were able to grab hundreds of trading cards in less than 10 minutes. Instagram\/@dowecollectibles<\/p>\n<p>One of the suspects dropped an unlocked cellphone inside the store, which investigators were able to use as evidence. Instagram\/@dowecollectibles<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey took a lot of smaller, single cards, and we have a lot of those so it does add up to a lot \u2026 big amount of merchandise was stolen here,\u201d said owner Duy Pham. \u201cAll of our display cases were empty.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pham told the outlet that his store did have surveillance cameras and other security measures.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe expected that something was going to happen sooner or later,\u201d he said. \u201cIn this business, we have a target on our back where \u2026 we cannot sleep well at night because sooner or later, we\u2019re going to get a break-in.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thieves stole roughly $180,000 worth of Pok\u00e9mon cards from an\u00a0Anaheim collectibles store\u00a0in an early-morning break-in, Fox 11 Los&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":190583,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164,7,45196,238,89397,3586],"class_list":{"0":"post-190582","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-pokemon","13":"tag-theft","14":"tag-trading","15":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190582","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=190582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190582\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}