Video allegedly shows man walk out of Worcester store with 500 Pokémon cards

By AARON PARSEGHIAN

A Worcester store known as a community hub for all things Japanese manga culture was hit by a costly theft over the weekend.

Theft caught on camera

John Le, owner of Otaku Sekai – which roughly translates from Japanese to “Nerd World” – said surveillance cameras caught a man stealing hundreds of Pokémon cards Saturday from his Park Avenue shop.

“It was a busy day,” Le said. “I had rows of people just trying to look at product cards and everything else. It was a very good opportunity for anyone that wanted to kind of, like, steal something.”…

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