Pokemon And Magic Card Heist Thwarted In Dramatic And Unexpected Fashion
In mid-September, around 300 trading cards were stolen from Enter The Battlefield gaming shop in Newmarket, Ontario. Security footage showed an individual smashing and kicking in the shop’s front door and then heading behind the cash register before loading trading cards valued at around $150,000 into a bag.
“We came in and saw that the showcases for the Magic: The Gathering and Pokémon singles were ravaged, and our cards were taken,” recalled Kris Fekete, owner of the shop, to CTV News. However, weeks later, Fekete received better news: The thieves had been arrested.
On October 1, two men came into another shop, OMG Games store in Barrie, and offered to offload a suspiciously large amount of Magic cards.