Two arrested on a series of mysterious desert robberies that saw the Nike shoes deserve millions
Arizona The authorities arrested two people in relation to a series of train robbers who caused the theft of Nike shoes Verno Mili.
On Thursday, the officials of the Police Department of the Hualapai Nation began a traffic stop on a Chevy Tahoe Marrone around 2:40 which is believed to be involved in more area hijackers.
After bringing out the car, eight people fled from the vehicle. The male driver was detained. The police located some of the stolen shoes near the car, said the police department in a press release.
In another traffic stop on Thursday, a white 4Runner Toyota was stopped on the 66 motorway as part of the investigations on the robberies. The driver was stopped after not giving in to an emergency vehicle. The police approached the vehicle and noticed evidence of criminal activities.
The patrol sergeant issued a verbal command so that the driver left the vehicle. The woman initially left the car, but returned to the driver’s seat, moved the vehicle to march and moved away from the high -speed scene. While trying to escape, the police say that the car hit a patrol officer.
The officer did not report injuries. The officers started the search for the fleeing suspect who lasted 80 miles and ended near the arizona-California Border on the mile marker 1 on the interstate 40. The driver lost control of the vehicle near a construction area, collided with a guardrail and was thrown out of the car.
The woman reported slight injuries and was transported to the Valley View Medical Center in the Mohave valley for treatment. Both drivers were booked in the adult detention center of the County Mohave for their alleged involvement in the case.
The police did not reveal further details on the alleged crimes or the identities of suspicions except to say that they were both from Mexico and in the United States illegally.
The police investigated a series of robberies by freight train near the Mojave desert. Thieves presumably stolen at least $ 2 million Nike sneaker, according to the Times of Los Angeles. Officials are currently investigating 10 similar robberies.
In a January robbery near Perrin, Arizona, the thieves cut an air brake tube on an BNSF freight train and ran away with over 1,900 pairs of unpublished Nike shoes for a value of over $ 440,000. The shoes were put on sale at the beginning of this month for $ 225 per pair.
Eleven people accused in the theft with January burglary have declared themselves not guilty and were all ordered held up to the trial, with the judges of the Magistrate of Arizona who concluded that the defendants represented the risk of fleeing the authorities.
All 11 defendants are accused of having or receiving goods stolen from the interstatal expedition. Ten of the 11 are Mexican who were in United States illegally. Another defendant is a Mexican citizen who was in asylum proceedings in the United States, the authorities in the court registers said.
The thieves generally scout goods on railway lines that parallel to the interstatal 40 embark on slow moving trains, such as when they are changing tracks and opening containers, said Keith Lewis, vice -president of operations at the Verisk Cargoneet and a deputy sheriff in Arizona.
Lewis said to Times That the thieves are sometimes overturned with precious shipments by members who work in the warehouses or in the road team.
The suspicions are helped by accomplices in “Follow the vehicles”, which follow the railway cars. The booty is launched by the train after he stopped – or for a scheduled stop or because an air tube was cut, according to Brynna Cooke, a special agent of the investigations on national security mentioned in the sworn declarations filed at the Federal Court.
The thefts of the loading trains cost the six largest railways of the nation over $ 100 million last year due to a combination of the value of the stolen goods and the cost of repairs for damaged railways and the problem has been worsening in recent years since the thefts have become more organized and sophisticated. The American RailRoads Trade Group Association estimates that the number of thefts increased by about 40% last year to 65,000 at national level.
The railways have invested millions of measures to help prevent these thefts, but it is not that they can easily limit access to over 140,000 miles of tracks operating across the country. It crosses remote and rural areas and cuts in the heart of many cities that transport millions of shipments of everything, from bulk goods such as coal and wheat to raw materials such as rock. Cars and containers of metal shipments are also transported full of almost any type of product imaginable or exported.
The railway group stated that further federal application and more severe sanctions are needed to discourage thefts, which are a chronic problem. The railways estimate that only about 1 out of 10 theft attempts cause arrest and many of the arrested people are repeated transgressors. A railway has even reported to arrest the same individual five times in a single day.
With the reports of the Associated Press
