Gen Con's 30K Alleged TCG Thieves Are Reportedly Board Game Designers
The Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department has reportedly identified two of the persons of interest allegedly involved in the theft of $300,000 worth of TCG cards from Gen Con 2023 as board game designers.
Just a few weeks ago, it was reported that at least $300,000 worth of trading card game cards had been stolen from this year's Gen Con, which took place in the Indiana Convention Center. Security camera footage obtained by the IMPD highlighted two at-the-time unidentified persons of interest who appeared to be involved in the theft, as the footage seemingly showed the pair carrying a pallet of TCG cards out of the convention centre before the stalls had been set up.
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Following the theft, the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department shared photographs from the security camera footage and asked for help finding the two persons of interest. As reported by Yahoo! Entertainment, the IMPD have since been able to identify the two persons of interest as Thomas J. Dunbar and Andrew Pearson Giaume, who are both board game designers.
Evidence collected by the police suggests that Dunbar and Giaume were in attendance at Gen Con 2023, possibly to sell their original board game, Castle Assault, which, as reported by Gizmodo, was successfully Kickstarted back in 2015 and seemed to be fairly popular at the time. According to the Castle Assault Facebook page, the board game was even present at numerous Gen Con conventions over the years, although the pair reportedly haven't worked on any new games since.
The security camera footage taken from Gen Con shows that one of the men (assumed to be Dunbar) wearing a dark t-shirt that
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