Criminal masterminds sought in theft of $300K of Magic the Gathering cards at GenCon after being identified by the shirts from their own successful Kickstarter project

[Commissar SFLUFAN]

Simply amazing.

 

Persons of Interest in Gen Con Card Theft Are Card Game Designers

GIZMODO.COM

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Confirming a lot of suspicions about how the theft happened in the first place, the designers of Castle Assault are considered persons of interest.

 

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At Gen Con earlier this month, a pallet of Magic: The Gathering cards worth $300,000 was stolen from the convention center; the product belonged to Pastimes, a gaming shop and MTG vendor. In an update from Indianapolis news station WTHR 13, police have identified two people of interest in the case: Thomas J. Dunbar and Andrew Pearson Giaume.

 

Dunbar and Pearson Giaume were attending Gen Con 2023, and might have been present to support their own card game, Castle Assault. In the photos taken from security footage, such as the one that appears above, a man that the police department has identified as a person of interest (assumed to be Dunbar) can be seen wearing a dark tee shirt with what looks like Castle Assault artwork and logotype on the back.

 

The Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department has released a series of photos to the public in an attempt to gather more information about the persons of interest. The photo above was taken by a security camera on Tuesday, August 1, two days before the convention opened on August 3, which means that the two men pictured might have been there early to work alongside vendors at the convention.

 

Castle Assault is a 1-2 person card game that was published in 2015, and according to the Castle Assault Facebook page, the game had a presence at Gen Con in 2017, 2016, and 2015. Castle Assault was successfully Kickstarted in 2015, and seems to have enjoyed a small amount of popularity.

 

 

[DarkStar189]

 Can’t believe they made it that easy to identify themselves.

[Air_Delivery]

What a bunch of mooks. 

[Kal-El814]

Post Malone already bought The One Ring, it's too late.