Florida Man Accused of Using Chainsaw to Steal $12,000 of Pokémon Cards

A Florida antheral has been arrested aft $12,000 of Pokémon cards were stolen from a section store, during a break-in that progressive a battery-powered chainsaw.

Clayton Warren, 33, has been charged with burglary and theft of bully totalling much than $10,000 pursuing a somewhat bungled heist astatine Collection Realm, a trading paper store successful West Palm Beach.

According to KSL, surveillance footage shows a antheral fitting Warren's quality astatine the store conscionable 2 days earlier the break-in. A mysterious fig past gains introduction to the store overnight connected May 21 — initially trying to smash a model with a rock, earlier resorting to the tiny chainsaw.

Warren does not look to person proven hard to find, arsenic surveillance cameras besides spotted the licence sheet connected his car. Blood was besides near down astatine the scene, pursuing the chainsaw usage.

The incidental is conscionable the latest successful a long, agelong tally of break-ins and thefts targeting Pokémon's hugely lucrative and often hard-to-find trading cards. Back successful January, unit and shoppers were held astatine gunpoint successful a brazen raid astatine a paper store successful Manhatten arsenic $100,000 worthy of banal was swiped. Nintendo past got successful interaction with the store — to accidental its sanction needed to alteration arsenic it sounded excessively overmuch similar an authoritative Pokémon shop.

In December, $100,000 worthy of banal was besides swiped from a store successful Burbank — though that was besides overnight. At the time, Californian cops said they suspected the raid was linked to "half a dozen" akin thefts wrong the confederate fractional of the authorities successful caller weeks. Numerous different examples person besides occured nationwide implicit the past 12 months.

Last month, different hopeless Pokémon instrumentality was arrested successful Pasadena, California, aft hiding wrong a closed Best Buy up of a Pokémon paper drop.

Tom Phillips is IGN's News Editor. You tin scope Tom astatine [email protected] oregon find him connected Bluesky @tomphillipseg.bsky.social