Overview
- Three masked suspects displayed a handgun, threatened customers, and smashed display cases with hammers at The Poké Court around 6:45 p.m.
- Surveillance video shows the suspects stuffing backpacks before fleeing west on West 13th Street, and no injuries were reported.
- Employees say more than $100,000 in PSA-graded Pokémon cards were taken along with about $1,000 in cash and a worker’s phone.
- The robbery unfolded during the store’s first community arts-and-crafts night with roughly 40 people inside, and the NYPD says no arrests have been made.
- Card retailers report tightening security and tracking resale platforms after similar high-value thefts, including a $300,000 gunpoint robbery in West Los Angeles.