Overview
- In West Los Angeles, a customer leaving RWT Collective was held at gunpoint in an underground garage and robbed of a briefcase of rare Pokémon cards valued at roughly $300,000, according to police and the shop’s owners.
- Hours earlier in Simi Valley, surveillance video captured about five suspects breaking into Simi Sportscards around 3:30 a.m., smashing display cases and fleeing with high-value Pokémon and sports cards.
- Simi Sportscards co-owner Jake Miller estimates losses at about $50,000, including damaged inventory, with the store previously hit in April 2025.
- LAPD and Simi Valley police are reviewing security footage and comparing evidence; no arrests have been announced in the Southern California cases.
- Shop owners report stepped-up security and shared watchlists, as similar card thefts were recently reported in Burbank, La Verne, San Gabriel and the Houston area, while UK police arrested two suspects in a separate warehouse burglary.