{"id":73884,"date":"2026-08-17T16:42:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T16:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/73884\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T16:42:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T16:42:11","slug":"suspected-pokemon-thief-caught-attempting-to-steal-again-nbc-boston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/73884\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspected Pok\u00e9mon thief caught attempting to steal again \u2013 NBC Boston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A suspected Pok\u00e9mon thief was arrested after police say he was recognized at a Manchester, New Hampshire, card shop while allegedly attempting to buy more Pok\u00e9mon cards.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect was identified as 41-year old Chencai Xie who is accused of using a fraudulent credit card to purchase five Pok\u00e9mon cards worth a combined $13,400 from a Raynham, Massachusetts trading card shop on August 5th.<\/p>\n<p>Police say surveillance video from the Raynham shop showed the suspect wearing a black hat, a black T-shirt with a dog on it and a black cross-body bag. Investigators also identified the make, model and registration of the white Mercedes-Benz he allegedly drove away in.<\/p>\n<p>The day after, a card shop in Manchester, New Hampshire notified Raynham Police that a man fitting the suspect\u2019s description was inside the store attempting to purchase Pok\u00e9mon cards.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators say Xie was driving the same Mercedes-Benz, which was determined to be a rental car, and was wearing the same clothing he had worn during the alleged purchase the previous day.<\/p>\n<p>The cards the suspect purchased in Raynham included a Bubble Mew valued at $3,200, a Jolteon V worth $1,300, a Shining Mew valued at $1,450, a Magikarp worth $4,300 and a Blastoise valued at $1,250.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/image-1-3.png\" loading=\"lazy\"   alt=\" \"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tRaynham Police DepartmentRaynham Police Department<\/p>\n<p>Xie was arrested under two charges of credit card fraud and larceny. <\/p>\n<p>The Pok\u00e9mon cards have not yet been recovered and Xie will be arraigned in Taunton District Court at a later date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A suspected Pok\u00e9mon thief was arrested after police say he was recognized at a Manchester, New Hampshire, card&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73885,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20951],"tags":[2849,24513,3622,2873],"class_list":["post-73884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mercedes-benz","tag-local","tag-massachusetts","tag-mercedes-benz","tag-new-hampshire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73884\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}