SANTA ANA, Calif. — Three men have been each been charged with a pair of felonies after allegedly stealing more than $300,000 in Air Jordan shoes from a BNSF train stopped in the Mojave Desert, the Orange County (Calif.) District Attorney said in a Nov. 27 press release.
Nike had placed a GPS tracker in the shipment of Air Jordan 11 Retro shoes, and BNSF police were notified the merchandise had been removed from a shipping container while the train was stopped near Amboy, Calif. California Highway Patrol investigators traced the GPS device to a U-Haul truck in an Anaheim parking lot and found 1,278 pairs of the shoes, valued at $311,832.
Bryan Quintero Echarravia, 18, of Mesa, Ariz., has been charged with a felony count of grand theft of cargo exceeding a value of more than $400 and a felony count of receiving stolen property. Bernardo Romeroquintero, 34, of Phoenix, and Olegario Flores, 26, no hometown reported, face the same felony charges, as well as one misdemeanor count each of possession of burglary tools. They face a maximum sentence of three years in state prison if convicted on all counts.
Way back in the day like medieval times, they cut off hands from those who stole…sorry to sound so “inhumane”, but reverting back to this might curb a lot of theft now-a-days.
3 years? Then there is always the theft of interstate cargo loom over their heads.
Railways should heighten security on their properties especially where trains stop for prolonged periods. This would reduce theft, stowaways, and tagging of rolling stock that make freight trains look like rolling landfills.
Glad they caught them. I don’t think 3 years is enough time.
In California? They’ll get probation with time served, back on the streets (and on container trains) in no time flat. And people complain about the high price of goods. Hah! Wanna bet that they’re caught again for the same thing while still on probation?
Sounds like a bit of insider work involved.
CSX used to have pretty consistent thefts when trains were being assembled out of 59th street intermodal yard… until an investigation found that a clerk at the yard was in contact with local gangs to tell them exactly which containers had high value shipments to raid.
When they cuffed the clerk, the thefts ended.