PORTSMOUTH, Va. (WAVY) — Stolen trading cards worth thousands of dollars are now back on the shelves of a Portsmouth store, and the owner of a competing store in Williamsburg is to credit. But the man who police say is responsible is still on the run with arrest warrants from multiple cities.
We first told you about this in early June. Police said two people broke into Atlantis Games and Comics in Portsmouth in the middle of the night, getting away with $17,000 dollars worth in Magic the Gathering cards. Some are extremely rare, worth thousands of dollars by themselves. Many were printed in limited quantities at around the time this trading card game started in the early 1990’s.
$17K worth of collectible cards stolen from Portsmouth business
The front door and a glass case inside were smashed out on the day of the robbery. Store owner Steve Matousek said his staff quickly got to work with cleaning up the glass and repairing the store.
“It was a good feeling to know that everybody that works here has my back, I guess you could say,” Matousek said.