Pokémon cards bring business — and thieves

When Ron Zeida woke up in the middle of the night to a barrage of texts, he knew something was wrong.

On Dec. 1, a burglar broke into his Vanguard Comics store in Barnstable and swiped roughly $1,000 worth of merchandise from the shelves. In under a minute, the thief left the store’s glass door shattered and its tight-knit community shaken. Three weeks later, police are still combing for leads, Zeida said.

But given the range of merchandise that Vanguard carries, it could have been much worse.