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Heartless robbers stole a French bulldog during a Brooklyn home invasion on Monday where the thieves appeared to target an $8,000 Pokemon card collection, cops and sources said.
Three or four gun-toting dognappers forced their way by a 62-year-old man into a Bushwick apartment on Myrtle Avenue at around 2:15 a.m., stealing the resident’s cellphone, according to authorities and law enforcement sources.
The goons then snatched the pooch, named “Coco,” from a 27-year-old man in the home, the sources added.
The bandits swooped up about $8,000 worth of Pokémon cards from the dog owner, the sources said.
The dognappers then left the apartment complex and had not been caught several hours later, cops said.
The stick-up comes several months after a pair of thieves stole two French bulldogs and a large stash of clothing from a Long Island City home over the summer, authorities said.
It also comes just weeks after a brazen trio stormed into an event at Poké Court in Manhattan’s Meatpacking District, smashing display cases and grabbing more than $116,000 worth of rare Pokémon cards.
“Something is going on with those cards where it’s a hot item,” a police source said.
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