He tried to catch them all. A man from Georgia has been sentenced to three years in federal prison for using COVID relief to buy a rare Charizard Pokemon Card with $58,000 of the loan money. The collectible has now become government property.

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Pokemon Player Goes to Jail for Using COVID Relief to Buy Rare Card

All right. Finally here, most millennials can tell you how intense Pokemon cards or trading cards can get, but usually the worst that happens. Um, was being grounded right now. A man is actually going to prison for a bad pokey deal. A Georgia man was sentenced to 36 months in prison for using COVID-19 relief funds to buy a rare chars erred Pokemon card. The man received some $85,000 after claiming to own a small business that supported 10 employees. Well he used almost 58,000 bucks from the money that he got from the government loan to buy the first edition card. It was all for not as the card is now government property and in addition to jail time he owes the government $95,000. Um, that was a really bad investment for him. You know, I, I've seen people get, you know, pretty kind of nitty gritty and really um, you know into the arguments with, with the Pokemon trading cards. This one's clearly not worth it here. One of the worst possible trades and that coming from someone who trained a holographic, I think it was a holographic last choice for a trainer card. Don't even guilt me because I already feel bad about it years later. My, my fiance really quickly running out of time and my fiance has a binder of like hundreds of Pokemon cards in like those clear cases under a bed. I need to do there and try to see, you know what's worth something and maybe sell it cause he's not using them, right? I'll get in in relationship jail for that.