Read from kare11 and Kotaku:
A locally-owned game and card shop in Forest Lake, Minnesota was robbed by a lone thief in the middle of the night on February 10. The man escaped with $250,000 worth of rare Pokémon cards and cash.
Overnight Thursday into Friday a crook broke into the shop by getting into a neighboring business, busting a hole in the wall and entering Punch Out's storage room, stealing an undisclosed amount of cash and an estimated $250,000 in collector cards.
"I just feel numb, just watching somebody come in and take everything away that you worked so hard to build up over the years," said co-owner Jason Peterson as he watched the heist caught on video from the store's security system.
"This is devastating for us, it's really going to be hard for us to weather the storm, we don't have any answers yet, we're still working on getting it sorted out," Peterson shared.
"It only makes our devotion stronger," insists Peterson, who says Punch Out Gaming has been doing business in Forest Lake for eight years. "We're really going to keep going forward, reinvent and come back."
A locally-owned game and card shop in Forest Lake, Minnesota was robbed by a lone thief in the middle of the night on February 10. The man escaped with $250,000 worth of rare Pokémon cards and cash.
Overnight Thursday into Friday a crook broke into the shop by getting into a neighboring business, busting a hole in the wall and entering Punch Out's storage room, stealing an undisclosed amount of cash and an estimated $250,000 in collector cards.
"I just feel numb, just watching somebody come in and take everything away that you worked so hard to build up over the years," said co-owner Jason Peterson as he watched the heist caught on video from the store's security system.
"This is devastating for us, it's really going to be hard for us to weather the storm, we don't have any answers yet, we're still working on getting it sorted out," Peterson shared.
"It only makes our devotion stronger," insists Peterson, who says Punch Out Gaming has been doing business in Forest Lake for eight years. "We're really going to keep going forward, reinvent and come back."
