A man who stole rare playing cards and gaming merchandise has been jailed.
Jamies Higginson broke into Harlequin Games in Manchester Road.
It specialists in the sale of playing cards and gaming merch and stock between £20,000 to £30,000 was swiped in the raid in February.
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The 28-year-old of no fixed address was jailed for more than three years after pleading guilty to two counts of burglary and criminal damage.
He smashed a side window to gain entry to the shop.
Higginson had been to the shop a few days earlier and been verbually abusive to staff. He kicked a door and dislodged the frame and also damaged a window as he left it.
Alongside his prison sentence he has also been given a restraining order which bans him from Harlequin Games.
Lancashire Police say he also targeted a flat above a restaurant in Poulton-le-Fylde in April last year.
Higginson took hundreds of bottles of wine from the flat which was used for storage by the restaurant. The wine was valued at around £5,000.
He was arrested after attempting to sell the bottles of wine in a supermarket car park to members of the public – one of those turned out to be an off-duty police inspector.
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