Old people have been engaging in wild Pokémon-related hijinks as of late, which is not a sentence I expected to be typing in the year of our lord 2026. But the 30th anniversary card set released this month has sent both fans and scalpers of all ages into a frenzy, and outlets around the world have been reporting fistfights, mail theft, and all manner of other unedifying behavior amongst those trying to get their hands on the new release.
Even by the standards of the last couple of months, a story that broke this week about one Kent Kubasta of Wooster, Ohio, stands out. First, the facts: Kubasta was convicted of placing an illegal GPS tracker on a delivery driver’s van so that he could track when and where said driver was making deliveries of Pokémon cards. As Aftermath notes, the driver found the device attached to her car while dropping off packs of cards at a local Walmart back in June. She contacted police, and Kubasta was arrested and charged with the illegal use of a tracking device or application, a criminal misdemeanor under Ohio law, admitting that he’d placed the device so that he could track her deliveries.
The court documents show that Kubasta initially pled not guilty and was set to stand before Judge Michael Rickett for a bench trial, but at the pre-trial hearing on August 31, he changed his mind, pleading no contest. He was duly convicted, fined $500 plus costs, and placed on 12 months’ probation, including three months with a GPS monitor (which runs you another $950 in Ohio, it seems).
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