This morning, Victorian Police have issued an announcement saying that arrests have been made within the case of all break-ins at collectible sport shops throughout Melbourne, the place Pokémon TCG playing cards have been focused.
Victorian Police say they’ve arrested 4 folks within the syndicated crime group during the last week of their investigations into the industrial burglaries. Police will allege that the group was concerned in stealing six cryptocurrency ATMs together with a sequence of break-ins at native sport shops since mid-January.
This group is alleged to be chargeable for break-ins at the least three of the native sport shops. Police say they’ve uncovered an “Aladdin’s cave of things,” together with roughly $50,000 price of buying and selling card video games, together with “Pokémon, Disney Lorcana, Yu-Gi-Oh, Magic: The Gathering, Dragon Ball Z, AFL, and NBA”.
4 folks have been arrested in whole. Two males, alleged to be the first offenders by police, have been remanded in custody to seem in court docket—one this week and the opposite in Could. Two different males have been launched pending additional investigations.
North West Metro Regional Crime Squad, Detective Inspector Patrick Watkinson says “This was a extremely organised and coordinated police operation, and we thank the vigilance of the affected buying and selling card neighborhood and the invaluable assist from business companions – which assisted within the dismantling of a big community of offenders.
“We’re assured that we’ve got apprehended the primary offenders who have been sharing their legal commerce craft with lesser offenders”.
