{"id":283870,"date":"2026-05-25T18:22:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T18:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/283870\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T18:22:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T18:22:09","slug":"florida-man-accused-of-using-chainsaw-to-break-into-store-steal-12k-worth-of-pokemon-cards-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/283870\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida man accused of using chainsaw to break into store, steal $12K worth of Pok\u00e9mon cards | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wptv.com\/news\/palm-beach-county\/region-n-palm-beach-county\/west-palm-beach-man-used-chainsaw-to-break-into-lake-park-store-steal-12-000-worth-of-pokemon-cards\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Click here for updates on this story<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0LAKE PARK, Florida (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wptv.com\/news\/palm-beach-county\/region-n-palm-beach-county\/west-palm-beach-man-used-chainsaw-to-break-into-lake-park-store-steal-12-000-worth-of-pokemon-cards\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">WPTV<\/a>) &#8212; A West Palm Beach man allegedly broke into a Lake Park store to steal Pok\u00e9mon cards \u2014 using a chainsaw.<\/p>\n<p>According to an arrest report from the Palm Beach County Sheriff&#8217;s Office, Clayton Warren, 33, was arrested and charged with burglary and grand theft after the owner of Collection Realm in Lake Park contacted PBSO on May 21 to report an overnight burglary.<\/p>\n<p>Surveillance video showed a man using a battery-powered chainsaw to cut a triangle into the hurricane-proof front window. In the process, blood was left behind. Warren initially attempted to break the window with a rock.<\/p>\n<p>After watching surveillance video, the owner estimated that $12,000 worth of Pok\u00e9mon cards were taken \u2014 both sleeved cards and bulk bonus cards. Surveillance also showed that a man matching Warren&#8217;s appearance had been in the store on May 19.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators used a license plate reader to locate Warren&#8217;s vehicle, which was captured on surveillance cameras, and found it was registered to a West Palm Beach address. A search warrant was provided and Warren was arrested at the home.<\/p>\n<p>He is being charged with burglary of an unoccupied structure and grand theft greater than $10,000 but less than $20,000.<\/p>\n<p>\u200bCOPYRIGHT 2026 BY CHANNEL 3000. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. THIS MATERIAL MAY NOT BE PUBLISHED, BROADCAST, REWRITTEN OR REDISTRIBUTED.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Click here for updates on this story \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0LAKE PARK, Florida (WPTV) &#8212; A West Palm Beach man allegedly&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":283871,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[265,28,30,29,12053,115,278],"class_list":["post-283870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-crime","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-national-and-world-news","tag-news","tag-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}