Thoughts on contacting pawn shops:
1. Use the carrot - the $70k reward - as a way to possibly get their help and report the cards if they see them.
2. Use the stick - by contacting them, they are on notice that if they buy stolen cards, they could be an accessory to a crime in addition to being prosecuted for receiving stolen property.
3. Additionally, any person that the pawn shop sells the cards to has acquired stolen property, so they are not good faith owners of the property and would likely have to return that property.
4. Pawn shops could be subject to civil litigation to the card owners for conversion of property.
Sometimes, threats and warnings can deter unlawful conduct.
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