{"id":480546,"date":"2026-09-30T15:10:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T15:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/480546\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T15:10:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T15:10:15","slug":"west-sacramento-comic-shop-targeted-in-early-morning-smash-and-grab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/480546\/","title":{"rendered":"West Sacramento comic shop targeted in early morning smash-and-grab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A West Sacramento comic book store is cleaning up after its third break-in, with surveillance video showing a suspect smashing through the front door early Tuesday and going after collectibles inside.<\/p>\n<p>The break-in happened around 3:45 a.m. at Nine8 Comics and Games.<\/p>\n<p>Cameras captured the suspect using a crowbar to break through the front door before heading toward packs hanging on a wall.<\/p>\n<p>Store owner Christopher Aliano said the burglar cut themselves during the break-in, leaving blood and shattered glass inside the shop.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Collectibles are a hot commodity right now,&#8221; Aliano said. &#8220;They&#8217;re easy to grab and they&#8217;re untraceable, so they&#8217;re easy to sell.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Aliano said this is the third time the store has been burglarized.<\/p>\n<p>Exactly what was taken has not yet been disclosed.<\/p>\n<p>He said thieves targeting collectible shops can quickly move stolen items elsewhere, making them difficult to track.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They drive two, three towns over,&#8221; Aliano said. &#8220;They don&#8217;t know what&#8217;s going on, they don&#8217;t know that a shop got broken into in Sacramento, in Stockton.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Despite the damage, Nine8 Comics and Games remained open Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>West Sacramento police said no suspect has been identified.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A West Sacramento comic book store is cleaning up after its third break-in, with surveillance video showing a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":480547,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[121,123,122,2958],"class_list":["post-480546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news","tag-west-sacramento"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480546","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=480546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/480547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}