On August 19, Hong Kong police raided a Pokemon TCG store that allegedly contained 16kg of methamphetamine within the designated “staff-only space.”
As reported by the South China Morning Post, this Pokemon TCG store within the residential district Hung Hom would host tournaments, and buying and selling excursions, with teams of youngsters and youngsters enjoying the beloved TCG collectively. Although police confirmed that none of those youngsters or youngsters had been concerned within the buying of mentioned medicine, it was a shock to Hong Kong Narcotics Bureau Inspector Liong Chun-Hin.
“Storing such a big amount of narcotics in a spot the place youngsters and kids can go to is irresponsible and disgraceful habits that additionally heightens the attainable threat of youngsters and kids mistakenly encountering unlawful medicine,” Chun-Hin instructed the native media.
Chun-Hin explains that the upstairs Pokemon TCG retailer had been working as a storage unit for greater than a month earlier than the police had pinned down its location.
In April of final yr, The Pokemon Firm spoke of a printing-company worker who had allegedly stolen a stack of rare cards from the Fusion Strike set to promote to his native recreation store. This has been thought of the “largest return of stolen property thus far” within the buying and selling card recreation’s historical past, in line with The Pokemon Firm.