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A 1st Edition Charizard Is on PSA's List of 6,451 Slabs Stolen From a FedEx Truck

PSA published every stolen cert from the Oct. 13 theft outside its Santa Ana facility, with a shadowless Charizard and 23 original Gold Stars also on the list.

Original source: psacard.com

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PSA published the full list of what thieves took from the FedEx truck that picked up customer orders outside its Santa Ana, California, facility on Oct. 13. It names 6,451 items by cert number while Santa Ana police and the FBI investigate.

When we first reported the theft, Santa Ana police put the loss at $963,000 and The Athletic counted about 250 packages. PSA's list is the first look at what was inside them.

The biggest name on it is a 1999 Pokémon Base Set Charizard holo, 1st Edition, cert 177980867. Pokémon makes up 2,978 of the items and One Piece another 898. The Pokémon slabs include a shadowless Charizard, 11 Japanese Masaki promos, and 29 Gold Stars, 23 of them originals from the EX era and Japan's Gift Boxes. The list also has a Gleaming Gold Smaug from Magic's Hobbit set and 19 sports one-of-ones, among them a Mookie Betts Topps Diamond Icons relic.

PSA has deactivated every cert on the list and shared it with marketplace sellers, auction houses, and digital commerce platforms that are watching for the cards. Before you buy a PSA slab from a seller you don't know, run the cert through PSA's cert verification and search for it in the list. If it's there, don't buy it. Call the FBI's Los Angeles office at 310-477-6565 or Santa Ana police at 714-245-8345 instead.

PSA has refunded the grading fees on every affected order. Customers who shipped on PSA's return label get fair market value up to each item's declared insured value. PSA says those payments are already going out. If a card turns up later, its owner can keep the money or take the card back. Our explainer breaks down what PSA owes you when it loses your cards.

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