MADISON COUNTY, Ala. (WHNT) – A string of bold burglaries is targeting collectable card shops that sell Pokémon trading cards.
Surveillance video taken from one of the shops appears to show a man targeting and stealing Pokémon trading cards. The theft is fast becoming a familiar story throughout Madison County.
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“It’s very unfortunate, and it’s just messes with the whole dynamics of things,” said Titus Wagner, the owner of NerdStop in Hazel Green. “It raises the prices and makes charges go higher and it’s typically not a good scenario all the way around.”
Wagner said that he had been hit twice by the thief, as was JC’s Cards to Go in Madison. The shops are among more than a dozen other locations by the same person, according to police…