Nearly $1M in sports, Pokmon cards stolen from FedEx truck in California
Thieves made off with nearly $1 million in sports, Pokémon and other trading cards swiped from a FedEx truck in Southern California last week, police said Monday.Officers responded to a trading card authentication company on Tuesday regarding the theft of an estimated $963,000 worth of cards from a FedEx truck, Santa Ana Police spokesperson Natalie Garcia said by email.The theft included two pallets of cards and a third that was “disrupted,” she said.The location of the report was Professional Sports Authenticator in the city of Santa Ana, about 33 miles southeast of Los Angeles.The company bills itself on its website as “the leading third-party authentication and grading service” and says it can sell customers’ cards online for a percentage of the selling price to “turn cards into currency.”Nick Andrews, known on social media as the Boston Card Hunter, said on his X account that there are multiple victims of the theft, one of whom he said lost $500,000 worth of cards.When all is said and done, he said, the heist could be one of the biggest in trading card history.
He has compiled a list of cards claimed to have been taken in the California theft that numbered as high as 383 on Monday evening.Among them, as noted by video game news site IGN, a 1995 Upper Deck 23K Gold Michael Jordan card and a 2024 One Piece Simplified Chinese 1st Anniversary Set Nami.For SubscribersFOR SUBSCRIBERSTrump’s latest moves back Russia, buck Congress and U.S.
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