Modern-Day Gang of Train Robbers Is Targeting Freights Traveling Through California, Arizona

In one heist, they made off with 2,000 pairs of Nikes, including Air Jordan 4s that will not be released to the public until next month.

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A Union Pacific freight train in Nebraska. Via Wikimedia Commons

The West is wild again. A train robber gang is terrorizing rail lines across the deserts of California and Arizona with a rash of heists that have netted the hop-along gang nearly $2 million in pricey Nike sneakers.

At least ten trains traveling along the Burlington Northern Santa Fe freight railway have been robbed while in transit over the past 11 months, according to a report from Los Angeles Times.

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