{"id":31722,"date":"2022-09-09T15:36:08","date_gmt":"2022-09-09T14:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pley2win.com\/featured-news\/store-says-man-stole-pokemon-cards-tried-to-sell-them-back\/"},"modified":"2022-09-09T15:36:08","modified_gmt":"2022-09-09T14:36:08","slug":"store-says-man-stole-pokemon-cards-tried-to-sell-them-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pley2win.com\/?p=31722","title":{"rendered":"Store Says Man Stole Pok\u00e9mon Cards, Tried To Sell Them Back"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Selling stolen goods to the place you took them from in the first place may not be the most brilliant of thievery plans, but it certainly saves on police paperwork. This is the alleged crime of a Washington man, who the Bellingham Herald<\/em> reports<\/span> stole a whole bunch of Pok\u00e9mon<\/em> and Magic: The Gathering<\/em> cards, then later tried to sell them back to the same store. Ingenious.<\/p>\n
As spotted by Game Rant<\/em><\/span>, the Washington State paper reports that a man is suspected of stealing a hefty $20,000 of Pok\u00e9mon<\/em> and Magic <\/em>cards from a card store located in the wonderfully named Whatcom County (fun fact: it\u2019s derived from the Lummi for \u201cnoisy water\u201d), spitting distance from the Canadian border. Around midnight on August 9, the suspect is reported to have smashed the glass door of the Cosmic Games store (the original report doesn\u2019t name the store, but we\u2019ve identified it from the address), then grabbed a range of items, including the TCG packs.<\/p>\n
It might have been the perfect heist, had the individual not returned to the scene of the crime to attempt to offload the exact-same stolen goods. Almost a month later, on September 3, the suspect is alleged to have entered the store to try to sell back cards he\u2019d nicked only a few weeks before.<\/p>\n\n
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Staff at Cosmic recognized the man (we\u2019ve reached out to Cosmic to ask for more details, including how they were able to recognize him, and will update should they get back to us), and confronted him, during which the Herald<\/em> reports he \u201cbecame belligerent,\u201d and is described as saying, \u201cI\u2019ll rob you again,\u201d before leaving. However, America\u2019s Best Thief managed to leave the pile of cards in the store in his temper. Perfect.<\/p>\n
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Having identified they were certainly cards that had been stolen from them, the store\u2019s staff contacted the police, and provided them with a photograph of the suspect. The police went on to arrest the master criminal, finding not only more Pok\u00e9mon<\/em> cards, but also fentanyl and methamphetamine. The police say that, so far, $8,000 of the missing merch has been recovered.<\/p>\n
He was charged with second-degree burglary, first-degree theft, second-degree possession of stolen property, first-degree trafficking, and best of all, malicious mischief, then released from jail \u201con personal recognizance\u201d last Sunday, September 4.<\/p>\n
We\u2019ve reached out to the Bellingham Police Department to ask for any further details, and to see if any more of the stolen merchandise has been recovered, and will update should we hear back.<\/p>\n
And by the way, if you live in the area, Cosmic Games<\/span> looks fantastic<\/em>. But, you know, pay for your stuff.<\/p>\n
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