Heartless NYC home invaders steal adorable French bulldog, $8K in Pokémon cards

A group of brazen burglars stormed a Brooklyn apartment building early Monday, stealing a French bulldog named Coco Chanel along with thousands of dollars’ worth of Pokémon cards, according to police and sources.

Coco was later found safe after the suspects abandoned her at a nearby hospital, where staff recognized the dog from a news photo and helped reunite her with her owner.

The incident began around 2:15 a.m. in Bushwick, when as many as four masked men armed with guns forced their way into a 62-year-old man’s apartment, taking his cellphone and his girlfriend’s credit cards, authorities said. The group then entered a second apartment in the building, where they assaulted a 27-year-old man, stole his dog Coco, grabbed approximately $8,000 in Pokémon cards, and took additional credit cards, according to the victims.

“Give me money, where’s the money?” the intruders shouted during the ordeal, victim Monica Kay said.

Kay said the men punched her boyfriend in the face, ordered him to lie face-down on the floor, and told her to close her eyes while they ransacked the apartment.

“They took everything from us that we had at home,” Kay said hours after the robbery. “There were four armed men with guns and ski masks. They basically took everything they found — and the dog.”

Not long after, the suspects left Coco in the garage at Wyckoff Heights Medical Center. Hospital workers found the dog and contacted emergency room nurse Amy O’Sullivan, known among staff as an animal lover.

“They called me right away,” O’Sullivan said. “They said, ‘Come get the dog.’ They had the dog hidden in a bathroom in the pediatric ER.”

A doctor soon connected the dots after seeing a news report about the stolen dog.

“She saw the story and said, ‘Oh my God, that’s the dog,’” O’Sullivan said. “That’s how everything started moving.”

Kay and Coco were reunited later that evening.

Police said the suspects fled the scene and had not been apprehended several hours after the incident.

The robbery follows other recent thefts involving French bulldogs and high-value Pokémon cards. Over the summer, two French bulldogs were stolen during a Long Island City home burglary. Just weeks ago, three people smashed display cases at a Manhattan Pokémon collectibles shop, making off with more than $116,000 in rare cards.

“Something is going on with those cards where it’s a hot item,” a police source said.