Recently, Pokémon exchange cards have reached a 30-year historical peak, and the unit weight value of some rare cards has exceeded gold.The first generation of Fire Dragon cards have become a "hard currency" in the collection industry. Among them, the market price of the PSA level 10 first-level printing plate exceeded US$250,000 (about RMB 1.8 million), and the prices of non-first-line printing plates also ranged from US$1,500-9,000.The phenomenon of new cards being sold out immediately and the number of transactions in the second-hand market has led to frequent crimes.

On March 28, violent robbery occurred in the Worrira parking lot in New South Wales.When the seller brought the PSA Level 9 first-generation unlimited version of the Holographic Fire Dragon Card (the police valued at 8,000 Australian dollars - about 66,000 RMB) for offline transactions, he was beaten and snatched the card by the buyer.The suspect fled in a red Ford Mustang, and the surveillance captured only blurry images.According to collection experts, the robbed card may be a "shadowless version" of the shadow effect missing. The current market price of this version of PSA Level 9 is indeed consistent with the police valuation.

Three weeks after the incident, the New South Wales police collected clues through social platform X, and wrote a meme: "The Rockets are not the only ones that cause trouble... Don't sit like Kabi Beast, contact the police hotline."

At present, Pokémon card crime cases have become very common. In addition to this case, there have been serial theft cases in Melbourne, Australia within six months, with the total value of the cards lost exceeding one million US dollars, a robbery occurred in Wyoming, the suspect was arrested for robbing $3,300 cards, a card store in Calgary, Canada was robbed, and $5,000 goods were stolen, etc.

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