Wild moment smash-and-grab thieves snatch $15K in trading cards in under 40 seconds

A brazen group of smash-and-grab thieves in the Bay Area managed to get away with thousands of dollars worth of Pokemon trading cards in under a minute.It happened on Saturday night at The Card Lab in Brentwood, California where a group of three broke into the specialty trading card and collectibles store and stole $15,000 worth of the cards, Brentwood Police Department told ABC7.Wild surveillance footage captured the trio all dressed in black inside the store, hopping over the counter and dumping tons of the cards into giant plastic garbage bags.The burglars smashed through a glass display case containing the valuable cards in the Pokemon heist that took just 39 seconds to commit before driving away, per police.Together the trio worked quickly to gut the store of boxes and boxes of the highly-sought after trading cards.California's top news, sports and entertainment delivered to your inbox every day.

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Never miss a story The owner of the store, Ronnie Hackett, said it happened while the manager was on a different floor of the store.“My first thought was ‘I hope that my employee was OK,’ and I was relieved to see that she was,” Hackett told ABC’s KGO.“And then I also just kind of wanted to see what the damage was, what damage was done.”“I’m relieved that she was not downstairs because that could have been way worse.But she was upstairs doing our end of the day protocol,” he added.The store was reportedly closed for a few days to beef up security measures, but is believed to have reopened.

A post on Instagram from the shop celebrated its grand opening just two months ago.The thieves are still on the loose and are asking for the public’s help to find them.This is only the latest example of thieves breaking into collectible stores for the specialty cards. Days earlier, a similar burglary happen...