Over 75K worth of trading cards, memorabilia stolen from 2 metro Atlanta stores

WSBTV.com News Staff
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Trading card stores across metro Atlanta have been targeted by thieves. The owners said the items taken are worth tens of thousands.

“After we found out, I saw it on camera. The door was smashed. They shattered the entire door,” Bob Mulligan told Channel 2.

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Workers at BT Collectives in Woodstock have spent the past two weeks cleaning up the mess that thieves left behind. Mulligan had at least three display cases broken into, according to a Cherokee County Sheriff’s Office incident report.

The first display case had $10,000 worth of Pokémon cards taken. In the other two cases, a thief took basketball cards worth $20,000 and baseball cards worth $30,000.

“We had them arranged differently and those were the highest value in the store,” Mulligan said.

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BT Collectives wasn’t alone. Over in Roswell, someone also hit Dave’s Sports Cards on Mansell Road.

“He had come around back through the cemetery. He shattered the glass to the front to the vault and then left,” owner David Olivieri told Channel 2.

In security camera videos shared with Channel 2 Action News, the suspect can be seen holding a bin and sledgehammer.

The suspect peeked through the window before smashing the lower glass of the front door. The suspect then entered a vault room and started to throw as many items as possible into his bin.

Olivieri said the thief took about $15,000 worth of cards and memorabilia from the vault.

“There is a rare box of a 2008 Topps triple threat sealed box. We are the only store in the state that had that sealed product,” he said.

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Back in Cherokee County, customers have rallied behind BT Collectibles and came back almost immediately to the community standout.

“We had customers going around the glass. They wanted to support us. So it’s that kind of community,” Mulligan said.

It is unclear if the two thefts are connected. The Cherokee County Sheriff’s Office and Roswell police are continuing their investigations.