Three burglars stole collectibles including Pokémon cards and damaged an Anaheim store earlier this week — resulting in an estimated $180,000 in losses, a manager of the business said.

Early Wednesday morning, Feb. 18, masked burglars broke into an insurance-company office in a strip mall, in the 1100 block of Harbor Boulevard, and tunneled through a shared wall with Do-We Collectibles, which operates inside another business called Bubble Screen, said Vincent Bui, the operations manager for the collectibles store.

The burglars used tools to tear through the wall.

A security camera captured a suspect using a sledgehammer to shatter display cases inside Do-We Collectibles early Wednesday morning. (Photo courtesy of Do-We Collectibles)

Surveillance video footage posted to the store’s Instagram account shows the burglars entering Do-We Collectibles through the hole in the wall. One opened a display case and loaded collectible cards into a large black bag, while the others shattered wall-mounted displays with a sledgehammer and filled additional bags with merchandise.

The three then left the store and fled in a vehicle parked outside the business.

“It looked like they knew the layout of our shop,” Bui said. “They went right to the display cases.”

Anaheim police Sgt. Matt Sutter said a fourth person acted as a getaway driver. A cellphone believed to belong to one of the thieves was left behind, he said.

The store is still comparing inventory to determine the full scope of the theft, Bui said. Stolen merchandise included Pokémon cards such as a Pikachu one valued at $300 and an Umbreon card valued at $600. The store carried multiple copies of both cards, and it is likely more than one of each was taken.

Some of the stolen items included cards graded by Professional Sports Authenticator, which assigns cards a condition grade and a unique identification number. He said the store would be able to report the stolen graded cards using the ID numbers — making those items more difficult to sell.

Collectible stores have increasingly been targeted in high-dollar burglaries across Southern California.

In Burbank, four men were arrested in connection with a December 2025 burglary in which $100,000 in Pokémon cards and other collectibles were stolen from LA Sports Cards, police said.

Do-We Collectibles was also the target of another theft, in June 2025, Bui said.

“It’s another step back,” Bui said of the recent theft. “But we’ll take three steps forward.”

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