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Two men face charges after allegedly stealing $93,000 worth of baseball memorabilia belonging to Major League Baseball player Daniel Johnson and his fianc\u00e9e, Alison Wysong. The men are accused of breaking into Johnson\u2019s storage unit and several other units in Phoenix, Arizona.<\/p>\n
A day after requesting public assistance in identifying the suspects, Phoenix police took the two men into custody. Police said the two suspects were trying to sell a pair of shoes at a pawn shop when a worker recognized them on security footage and contacted authorities. Police<\/a> reportedly found important evidence while executing a search warrant at the suspects\u2019 residence.<\/p>\n According to Phoenix Sgt. Sheree Lee, who spoke to ABC 15 News<\/a>, the stolen goods included shirts, hoodies, jackets, shorts, batting gloves, hats, laptops, and purses. Johnson and Wysong said that they were storing the clothing and other belongings in the unit while their house was being renovated.<\/p>\n Several of the items that were stolen were irreplaceable<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019ve had all the same gear from multiple teams,\u201d Johnson told Fox 10 News<\/a>. \u201cA lot of the other things were replaceable. But when it comes to the baseball\u2026 apparel and memorabilia that I had for over my 10 years\u2026 it really was a gut buster because I knew that unless I played for all those teams, there\u2019s no guarantee that I get that stuff back.\u201d<\/p>\n Johnson said that he had intended to give some of the stolen goods to charitable organizations.<\/p>\n \u201cVery personal to me to, you know, to give back to the kids. Cause I once was those little kids, you know,\u201d Johnson said.<\/p>\n Daniel Johnson has played for the Cleveland Guardians<\/a>, Baltimore Orioles<\/a>, San Francisco Giants<\/a> and Houston Astros during his MLB career. In eight games with the Astros<\/a> in 2026, he had two hits in 14 at-bats. He split the rest of the season playing in Triple-A and the Mexican League.<\/p>\n \u201cIt does sound like people really have been impacted, not just us. And we\u2019re hoping that our story is the one that really nails the guys and that everybody else can really get their belongings back as well,\u201d Wysong said.<\/p>\n Professional athletes continue to be affected by burglaries<\/p>\n While Sgt. Sheree Lee claimed Daniel Johnson \u201cwasn\u2019t targeted in any way\u201d because the suspects \u201cwere going through the facility, breaking locks to get inside,\u201d several other pro athletes can\u2019t say the same.<\/p>\n In August, Max Iheanachor, a rookie offensive tackle for the Pittsburgh Steelers, had at least $150,000 worth of items stolen<\/a> from his home by burglars while he was at a preseason game.<\/p>\n Dallas Cowboys wide receiver CeeDee Lamb was also recently the victim<\/a> of a home burglary while he was at training camp, with over $300,000 worth of property stolen.<\/p>\n Philadelphia Eagles running back Saquon Barkley had his Pennsylvania home broken into by two people<\/a> in July. And in December, WNBA star Sabrina Ionescu and former NFL lineman Hroniss Grasu had their Los Angeles home broken into and burglarized<\/a>.<\/p>\n Several alleged members of a South American theft group<\/a> were arrested by law enforcement last year after breaking into the houses of professional athletes. Two pawn shop operators<\/a> were also accused by the authorities of operating a fencing business and selling the athletes\u2019 stolen property. Unfortunately, burglars have continued to break into professional athletes\u2019 homes since their arrests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Troy Taormina-Imagn Images Two men face charges after allegedly stealing $93,000 worth of baseball memorabilia belonging to Major…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":827812,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2374],"tags":[143,47,2538,5,1866,4,125,4589],"class_list":["post-827811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-baltimore-orioles","tag-baltimore","tag-baltimore-orioles","tag-baltimoreorioles","tag-baseball","tag-daniel-johnson","tag-mlb","tag-orioles","tag-police"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117429767334115387","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=827811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827811\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/827812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=827811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=827811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=827811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}