NAPLES, Fla. (WFLA) — “It is a real-life ‘Gotta catch ’em all.'”
A person was busted in the course of making an attempt to steal hundreds of {dollars} value of Pokémon playing cards final week, the Collier County Sheriff’s Workplace mentioned.
Simply after midnight on March 24, deputies responded to a housebreaking alarm at Gorka’s Poke Barn in North Naples enterprise, to search out the again partially open and the ability minimize.
Francisco Alvarez, 34, of Bonita Springs was discovered with three luggage containing roughly $15,000 value of Pokémon buying and selling playing cards, together with different merchandise.
It was round 2 a.m. when physique digicam video from the sheriff’s workplace caught the second deputies stopped Alvarez mid-burglary.
The sheriff’s workplace mentioned Alvarez was an everyday on the store. In accordance with NBC affiliate WBBH, he was even on a first-name foundation with the proprietor and different prospects. Nonetheless, Alvarez had offered the sheriff’s workplace with two pretend names, earlier than revealing his actual id.
“Good luck opening Pokemon playing cards in jail,” the proprietor of Gorka’s Poke Barn, Justin Ghorka, instructed WBBH.
Alvarez instructed deputies that he with conversant in the merchandise he was stealing and had deliberate to resell them, an arrest affidavit mentioned.
The proprietor instructed the outlet that Alvarez apologized to him as he was getting arrested. The suspect had additionally minimize the shop’s locks and had a large grinder.
“I hope they lock away the important thing, man. Keep in there, man,” one buyer mentioned. “Take pleasure in your Pokemon playing cards in there.”
Alvarez was arrested and charged with felony housebreaking, giving a false ID to officers, grand theft, tampering with utilities and possession of housebreaking instruments.
