{"id":101863,"date":"2026-01-16T02:10:56","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T02:10:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/101863\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T02:10:56","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T02:10:56","slug":"manhattan-pokemon-store-says-robbers-took-off-with-100000-in-merchandise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/101863\/","title":{"rendered":"Manhattan Pok\u00e9mon store says robbers took off with $100,000 in merchandise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"anchor-1bfa1e\" class=\"body-graf\">Three people robbed a Manhattan Pok\u00e9mon store Wednesday, pointing a pistol in the faces of customers and using a hammer to break display cases, according to New York City police and security video of the incident.<\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-29a8f3\" class=\"body-graf\">No one was hurt in the robbery at Pok\u00e9 Court on 13th Street around 6:48 p.m., the NYPD said.<\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-e5cbcb\" class=\"body-graf\">Security video shows the robbers wearing all black and one using a hammer to smash open a display case as customers and employees are in the store. <\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-78cfc8\" class=\"body-graf\">One of the robbers points a handgun at the faces of customers, some of whom put their hands up, the video shows.<\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-ec5ba6\" class=\"body-graf\">The NYPD did not say in its statement how much was taken in the robbery. Store owner Courtney Chin told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnewyork.com\/manhattan\/armed-robbery-pokemon-store-ny-manhattan-west-village\/6444504\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">NBC New York<\/a> that around $100,000 in merchandise was stolen.<\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-229f28\" class=\"body-graf\">Employees told police that three people entered the store and displayed firearms and that they stole merchandise and money, as well as the cellphone of a woman who was working there, the NYPD said.<\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-8b65ae\" class=\"body-graf\">No one has been arrested, police said.<\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-f4f4f2\" class=\"body-graf\">In California, robbers have recently ransacked card stores and stolen items that included Pok\u00e9mon cards, police there said.<\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-5baa65\" class=\"body-graf\">On Dec. 2, thieves broke into LA Sports Cards in Burbank, in the Los Angeles area, and stole around $100,000 in merchandise, including Pok\u00e9mon cards, Burbank police said. Four people were arrested in connection with the burglary, police said last week.<\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-b390a8\" class=\"endmark body-graf\">And this month in West Los Angeles, a group of robbers held up a customer who was leaving a card store and stole his Pok\u00e9mon collection valued at around $300,000, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbclosangeles.com\/news\/local\/up-to-500k-in-pokemon-cards-stolen-in-armed-robbery-in-sawtelle\/3826831\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">NBC Los Angeles reported<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three people robbed a Manhattan Pok\u00e9mon store Wednesday, pointing a pistol in the faces of customers and using&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":101864,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-101863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}