Theft of 1,278 pairs of Air Jordan 11 Retro shoes, valued at over $311,000, from a train halted in California’s Mojave Desert has been filed against three men.
Railway police with railway operator BNSF were alerted that the contents of a shipping container containing Nike merchandise had been separated from the train while it was parked outside the desert town of Amboy, California, which is approximately 200 miles northeast of Los Angeles, according to a release from the district attorney of Orange County.
After Nike embedded a GPS tracker in the Air Jordan package, California Highway Patrol officers were able to trace the consignment to a U-Haul vehicle in an Anaheim parking lot.
Olegario Flores, 26, Bernardo Romeroquintero, 34, of Phoenix, and Bryan QuinteroEcharravia, 18, of Mesa, Arizona, have each been charged by the authorities with one felony count each of grand theft, receiving stolen property, and, in the case of the latter two men, misdemeanor possession of burglary tools.
If found guilty on all counts, they may get a maximum term of three years in state prison.
Whether the men had hired lawyers was not immediately apparent.
A request for comment was not immediately answered by a BNSF representative.
In a news release, Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer stated that organized crime rings cannot compete with law enforcement’s sophistication and resolve to find these criminals, apprehend them, and bring them to justice. It is not a question of whether you will be caught and prosecuted in Orange County, but rather when.
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