2 Dark Crimes Involving Collectibles (Part 1 – Daniel Pack)

Though many businesses have been suffering for the past couple of years due to ongoing restrictions placed on them in many places across the globe, one industry that has notably been thriving is the world of trading cards and collectibles.

While demand began to skyrocket almost as soon as we were all forced inside in 2020, the trend reached an absolute fever-pitch last year, especially when it came to collectible cards. Of course with this increased demand came soaring prices, bringing with it many people looking to cash in on the frenzy. And as retailers were swarmed with people looking to scoop up as many of these items as possible, it didn’t take long for an uglier side of the world of collectibles to come out.

In May of last year, a customer at a Target store in Brookfield, Wisconsin was walking to his car with sports cards he had just purchased when he was allegedly approached by 4 men who tried to rob him in the parking lot. He ended up drawing a gun on them and scaring them away without any injuries or shots fired, but the incident was still enough for the major US retailer to decide that it had had enough, and the in-store sale of MLB, NFL, NBA, and Pokemon cards was temporarily suspended. Similar stories have also emerged in other places, with card and memorabilia shops themselves becoming popular targets for robberies.

Being that both Luke and I have been into collectibles at one point or another in our lives, we thought that the whole thing might make an interesting topic for a video. When we did some digging, it turned out there were quite a few serious crimes that have involved collectibles over the years, 2 of which we decided to cover in today. Just a heads up, we’ll be dedicating an entire video to each one of these cases, so make sure to check out the description below for the link to the second case. There are also definitely other stories like these that we came across but that we didn’t have time to get to today, so if you want us to cover those in a future video, be sure to let us know in the comments section below. While you’re there, don’t forget to like and subscribe to Crime Zone for more true crime content like this, making sure to hit the notification bell to stay up to date with our latests releases. With that out of the way here are “2 Dark Crimes Involving Collectibles.”

Check out the other video on today’s list:

Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDFBg1P98zs

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