TACOMA, Wash. — A crew of masked burglars used a pickup truck as a battering ram and then hauled away containers of Pokémon and Magic: The Gathering cards, leaving a family-owned Tacoma collectibles shop facing roughly $50,000 in losses.
“It’s scary. They came in with a lot of force, in and out in just a couple of minutes,” said Don Knutsen, owner of Northwest Sportscards. “I think it was well-rehearsed.”
The burglary happened shortly after 5 a.m. on Monday, according to Tacoma police. Store surveillance video shows a black Dodge pickup banging open a rear entrance to the building so two thieves could run in with totes and grab merchandise from the shelves and storeroom…