Overview
- Simi Sportscards in Simi Valley was hit around 3:38 a.m. Sunday, with surveillance video showing about five suspects smashing display cases and fleeing in under five minutes.
- Store co-owner Jake Miller estimates roughly $50,000 in Pokémon and sports cards were stolen, and he plans to circulate a list of high-value missing items to other shops.
- In West Los Angeles, a regular customer leaving RWT Collective was robbed at gunpoint in an underground parking area of rare Pokémon cards valued at about $300,000, and the victim later identified two suspects to police from images provided by the shop.
- A separate West L.A. ambush reported by LAPD involved an armed suspect stealing a collector’s Pokémon cards worth at least $200,000 as the victim left a shop on Olympic Boulevard; the victim was not injured.
- Investigations are ongoing with no arrests announced, and shops and property managers are tightening security with added cameras and possible guards while authorities urge discreet transport and other precautions for high-value items.