Pokémon Trading Card Store Secretly Sells Drugs

A police raid uncovered $1.3 million worth of narcotics in a TCG Pokémon store.

2024 08 22 13 13 news
Police raided a Pokémon store. | © Nintendo/EarlyGame

The Hong Kong police raided a Pokémon Card Shop and found a huge amount of drugs in the back.

A Wild Drug Dealer Appeared!

Earlier this week, The South China Morning Post reported that a TCG Pokémon store was being used as cover for a drug operation and had been raided by police. The police initially found 5kg of crystal meth on the owner, and when they took the man back to his store and ran a further search, they found another 16kg of crystal meth.

Police said the 21kg narcotic haul was worth an estimated HK$10 million, which is around $1.3 million USD.

The report also said that the Pokémon fans who bought and played there were totally innocent and had nothing to do with the drug business going on behind the scenes.

What would the police find in a Magic: The Gathering store? The smell alone would surely be enough to get a warrant...

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