$8,000 PSA 10 One Piece Card Stolen from Pennsylvania Store
The theft is the latest in a string of high-value anime card robberies in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, and local stores are responding by upgrading security to match jewelry stores.
Key Facts
- A Sabo Red Manga Alternate Art card from the One Piece Card Game, valued at $8,000, was stolen from Key Items Collectibles in the Berkshire Mall in Wyomissing, Pennsylvania, on August 28, 2026.
- The stolen card was graded PSA 10 Gem Mint by Professional Sports Authenticator, and police believe fewer than 2,000 copies of the card exist.
- Breaking the card's PSA slab would drop its value from $8,000 to roughly $200, and the slab's unique security number lets owners flag the item as stolen in the official database.
- Anonymous tips about the theft can be submitted to Crime Alert Berks at 877-373-9913.
Reporting from 2 sources: Animehunch, OtakuKart Anime.
A One Piece Card Game card valued at $8,000 was stolen from Key Items Collectibles inside the Berkshire Mall in Wyomissing, Pennsylvania, on August 28, 2026. The missing card is the Sabo Red Manga Alternate Art card, graded PSA 10 Gem Mint by Professional Sports Authenticator, and police believe fewer than 2,000 copies exist. The Wyomissing Police Department is searching for two suspects captured on the store's CCTV footage. One suspect distracted the store owner while the other reached across the counter and removed the card from an unlocked display case. One suspect wore a light-colored Corona T-shirt and a red baseball cap; the second wore a black baseball cap, a black Nike T-shirt with orange lettering, and floral shorts. The PSA slab carries a unique security number that lets owners flag the item as stolen in the official database, and breaking the seal would drop the card's value from $8,000 to roughly $200. "So you're not going to be able to sell it for, you know, what it's worth," said Max Hirneisen, owner of Symbiote Collectibles, to 69News. The theft follows other high-value trading card robberies in Pennsylvania and New Jersey this year.
The One Piece Card Game, released by Bandai in December 2022, is based on the manga and anime franchise by Eiichiro Oda. The Sabo Red Manga Alternate Art card's PSA 10 Gem Mint grade is a designation that can significantly raise the value of rare trading cards, and police believe fewer than 2,000 copies of this card exist.
Key Items Collectibles has asked members of the One Piece TCG community to watch online marketplaces and trading circles for the missing card. Wyomissing police are asking anyone with information to come forward, and anonymous tips can be submitted to Crime Alert Berks at 877-373-9913.
The incident follows other expensive trading card thefts in the region. In May, more than $9,000 worth of Pokémon cards, including individual pieces valued at over $2,000 each, were stolen from a shop in Trappe, Pennsylvania. In July, surveillance footage in Gloucester Township, New Jersey, captured two people using a hammer to break into a collectibles store and stealing up to $2,000 in Pokémon merchandise in under five minutes. The thefts have prompted many local card stores to upgrade their security systems to match those used by jewelry stores, and scalping has pushed storefronts in Japan to install facial recognition systems.
Synthesized by Yomimono from the 2 cited sources below, including Japanese-language reporting where cited, then editorially reviewed before publishing.