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Case file · Santa Ana, California · Oct 13, 2026
The Santa Ana Heist
6,451 graded cards vanished from a FedEx truck outside PSA. These are the 2,978 Pokemon slabs, cert by cert.
- Slabs stolen
- 6,451
- Pokemon
- 2,978
- Our value range
- $778.4K to $3.54M
- Most likely $1.36M
- PSA, Pokemon share
- $444.6K
- Of $963.0K, all games
PSA withheld every grade, so each value is a range of likely grades.
Most wanted
Grade withheld by PSA: 8 in 10 copies of this card are worth between low and high.
PSA's number against ours
PSA's estimate
6,451 slabs, every game
$963,000
$149 a slab
- Pokemon, assumed $444,553 (46.2% of slabs)
- Other games $518,447
Our estimate
1,935 valued Pokemon slabs of 2,978
Low $778,409High $3,539,787
$1,361,784
most likely · $704 a slab
Solid: most likely. Dashed: low to high, since PSA withheld the grades. PSA's Pokemon share is assumed by slab count.
How we get a range, on one card
Charizard
Base Set
4%
5%
9%
12%
15%
16%
11%
13%
13%
2%
PSA 1
$9.8K
PSA 2
$9.9K
PSA 3
$10.3K
Low
PSA 4
$12.1K
PSA 5
$15.3K
PSA 6
$18.8K
Most likelyLikely
PSA 7
$26.2K
PSA 8
$43.1K
PSA 9
$92.1K
High
PSA 10
$1.06M
- 1Odds: how PSA's graded copies of this card spread over the grades.
- 2 Value: our fair value at each grade.
- 3 Range: low $10,329, most likely $18,834, high $92,109. Every slab, added up, gives the range above.
What was taken
By language
- English$734,401 · 1,457
- Japanese$580,065 · 1,359
- Chinese (Simplified)$32,368 · 85
- Korean$5,998 · 63
- Italian$5,085 · 7
By era
- Vintage WotC$362,306 · 400
- EX/DP$269,937 · 222
- BW/XY$115,944 · 136
- SM/SWSH$242,256 · 646
- SV$69,573 · 336
Top sets
- EX Deoxys$64,498 · 6
- Ascended Heroes$58,137 · 219
- Masaki Promos$52,024 · 14
- Legendary Collection$45,956 · 16
- SM-P Promos 2018$45,823 · 17
Exhibit A
The haul
1 tile = 1 slabEvery stolen Pokemon slab. Click one to look closer.
How we valued it
- Exact grades are missing: PSA's list leaves them out and every stolen cert page reads "grade unavailable". So each slab is valued probabilistically, from the odds of each PSA grade for that card, at the median of that distribution, with a low and high estimate.
- 1,935 of 2,978 slabs valued. 969 not yet matched to a card.
- If every slab were a PSA 10: $22,216,635.
- Pokemon only, prices as of Nov 14, 2026. PSA's estimate covers every game.