Just before the start of the 2023 Gen Con gaming conference at the Indiana Convention Centre and Lucas Oil Stadium in downtown Indianapolis, thieves fled with a pallet of gaming cards on August 2, reports IndyStar.
According to Indianapolis Metro Police, the thieves used a pallet jack to remove the cards.
Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department (IMPD) on X shared pictures asking for help from the public to identify two people caught on surveillance video taking the pallet, and wrote: “IMPD detectives are seeking the public’s help in identifying two people of interest possibly involved in a theft of upwards to $300,000 worth of gaming cards.”
According to Craig Casares, assistant manager at Good Games, a board game store at 111 S. Meridian St. in Indianapolis, taking an entire pallet from a Gen Con setup area is pretty brazen.
“It’s more common to have theft of decks or collections and attempting to sell those than it would be to steal a pallet,” Casares said.
“The amount of either courage or bluffing skills that someone would have to have to just walk into Gen Con and take a pallet and no one stops them… I don’t think anybody I know would have the nerve to go in and do that,” he added.
Gen Con 2023 convention took place from Aug 3 to 6.
This is not the only card game theft in the Indianapolis area.
In May, local media reported that a thief broke into a gaming store in Brownsburg and stole about $15,000 worth of Magic: the Gathering cards.
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