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Very early Friday morning, Georges Laraque’s cell phone started vibrating very often, which is generally not a good thing according to him.
Published yesterday at 1:59 p.m.
“I think my associate at the store called me about 60,000 times,” said the former Canadiens player Friday morning. I suspected it wasn’t good…”
It wasn’t good indeed. The Ultime Sports Collection Laval store, of which Laraque is the co-owner, was the victim of a major theft of sports cards during the night from Thursday to Friday.
According to Laraque himself, it would be a crime worth around $20,000, since the criminal went directly to the most expensive cards section of the store, located in Laval.
“We’re in the process of listing all of that, but he went to where we had our most expensive cards,” he added. There are three shelves, and on them, there were, among other things, boxes of Formula 1 cards at $3,000 per box. »
In the immediate future, Laraque, who also hosts the midday show Laraque and Gonzalez on the airwaves of BPM Sports with Stéphane Gonzalez, is hopeful of being able to find the equipment that was stolen. On social networks and on his various accounts, he has already posted video images of the criminal at work.
Second break-in
Does the renewed popularity of the sports card have something to do with it? The Laraque store has been open since 2018, and this is the second break-in of its kind committed at the location.
“With the rise in interest rates, people are a little more cautious and the price of cards has gone down,” he explained. But this is the second time this has happened to us; the first time, the guy’s blonde came back the next day to pay for everything!
“But we are hopeful of finding the culprit. There are the images on our cameras that have already been broadcast, but in addition, our cards are graded, with a serial number on them. It won’t be easy for that person to try to resell them. »
Finally, Georges Laraque believes that the main thing in this affair is that no one was injured. “The worst thing is that in the evening like this, we often stay there even when the store is closed. I shouldn’t have bumped into the guy…”
2023-10-07 01:24:29
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