{"id":43552,"date":"2025-11-08T03:00:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T03:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/43552\/"},"modified":"2025-11-08T03:00:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T03:00:10","slug":"anaheim-woman-nabbed-for-stealing-pokemon-cards-from-tesla-trunk-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/43552\/","title":{"rendered":"Anaheim woman nabbed for stealing Pok\u00e9mon cards from Tesla trunk: Police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A woman suspected of stealing Pok\u00e9mon cards and other items from the trunk of a Tesla in Orange County last month has been taken into custody, police said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Irvine Police Department asked the public for help on Oct. 15 in identifying a woman who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/woman-sought-pok-mon-card-184453616.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:got away with over $400 worth of Pok\u00e9mon cards;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">got away with over $400 worth of Pok\u00e9mon cards<\/a> and personal property taken from the car as it sat in the parking garage of an apartment building on Miramonte.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cA woman possibly associated with Team Rocket was caught on camera opening the trunk of a Tesla,\u201d the police department <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DP1gUl5kcmm\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:posted on Instagram;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">posted on Instagram<\/a> along with the video.\u00a0\u201cHelp us catch this one before she disappears into the tall grass! \u2026 We \u2018gotta catch \u2019em all\u2019,\u201d the post read.<\/p>\n<p><a data-ylk=\"ct:story;elm:img;itc:0;\" class=\"stretched-box\" href=\"https:\/\/ktla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/11\/Copy-of-mug-or-photo-bkg-13.png\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><img alt=\"Rosemary Morfin arrest Irvine\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/57c95b51f7893f63a530d06c845f9165.jpeg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rosemary Morfin is placed in handcuffs during an arrest on Nov. 5, 2025. (Irvine Police Department)<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In Thursday\u2019s update, police reported that investigators later identified the suspect as 32-year-old Rosemary Arteaga Morfin of Anaheim and served a search warrant at her apartment, but she was not home at the time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police said that Morfin later refused an opportunity to turn herself in and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DQvGtJPjyHj\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:shared their text exchange;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">shared their text exchange<\/a> on Facebook.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cOkay Rosemary, I\u2019ve only got a little time left today. This is your opportunity to do it the easiest way, that\u2019s most convenient for you. This isn\u2019t going away and after today it\u2019s just going to be more inconvenient. The ball is in your court,\u201d the message from police reads.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Morfin allegedly replied, \u201cMy attorney told me to hang tight,\u201d to which the response was, \u201cI will see you soon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Video of Wednesday\u2019s arrest showed detectives approaching her car and shouting, \u201cRosemary, shut the car off.\u201d She is then ordered to unlock the door and is seen being placed in handcuffs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Morfin was booked on suspicion of burglary, vehicle burglary, vandalism and receiving stolen property, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ktla.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KTLA.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KTLA. <\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman suspected of stealing Pok\u00e9mon cards and other items from the trunk of a Tesla in Orange&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43553,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164,9924,611,28993,590,28994,28995],"class_list":["post-43552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-irvine-police-department","tag-orange-county","tag-pokemon-cards","tag-police-department","tag-rosemary-arteaga-morfin","tag-team-rocket"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43552","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=43552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43552\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}