Careful Sinalo Cartel train Nike Shoe Speist of the latest in the criminal trend: experts
AND Cartel Sinalo In hundreds of thousands of dollars stolen Nike shoes with a mobile train of BNSF to its latest railway robbery between California and Arizona, a sample that is increasing, according to law implementation.
Eleven members of Mexican Transnational criminal organization The federal custody is after stealing goods from a train car traveling north of Phoenix with cut air brakes on January 17th, Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) said in documents submitted on Wednesday at the US District Court in Arizona.
BNSF employees informed the police after noticing a separate air hose on a freight train near Perrin in Arizona. The railway police noticed a truck with boxes parked several kilometers and later several crates were placed near the trails.
The police said They stopped Toyota Camry leaves the Ford Economoline Box truck area and identified his passengers as Jaime Cota Peraz and Sadiel Martinez Soto. While the suspects were distracted, other authorities put on tracking devices in the waiting box.
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Members of the Sinalo cartel allegedly used this box truck to throw out Nike shoes worth $ 202,500 from the BSNF train 17 January 2025. (Investigation of Homeland Security)
After the authorities allegedly watched several people loaded crates in a truck with boxes, soldiers for public security in Arizona followed them to Kingman in Arizona, where they persecuted two men who said that Erik Portillo Valdez and Noe Cecena Castro were over some trees and barbane wires of fences.
The tracking devices have led to Chevy Tahoe that pulls the crates. The authorities found that 150 cases of Nika goods worth $ 202,500.
Peraza, Soto, Valdez, Castro and seven other persons are charged with possessing a crime or receiving goods stolen from an interstate shipment. Nine of these suspects were illegal in the United States, and six said that the natives were Sinalo.
In the past two years, similar thefts have been on the rise, HSI said.
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The Mexican soldier stands a guard besides the graffiti drug trader Mayo Zambada and the criminal group “Cartel de Sinalo” at Palmas Altas on March 14, 2022. (Pedro Pardo/AFP via Getty Images)
“Once the organization targets the train of interest, they find a location for several burglaries to get on the train,” the court documents wrote. “The burglars of the open door as the train moves and target goods such as electronics, tools and footwear.”
Cartel members are looking for cars with safety locks and use a chicken to cut metal, screws and other tools for stealing content. In other cases, associates sabotage the trains signal systems by cutting the locks on signal boxes and touching their wiring.
Once the train stops, they use their phones to share their location with other cartel members who drive trucks or small trailers on nearby roads to pick up stolen goods.
“The suspects have often cut the air hoses of the train braking system, which is why the train goes into urgent stopping,” HSI said in court documents. “This act is very dangerous and can cause the train to decline, which could cause serious injury or death to employees or citizens of the railway company.”
“This is also a dangerous act that creates a” dark area “on the railway network. Trains travel by speeds up to 70 miles per hour on multiple paths east and west. Dispengers and train crews rely on safe transport signals,” the agency continued.
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Members of Sinalo Cartel assaulted the BNSF train on January 17, 2025, according to investigations into the Homeland Security. (Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty Images)
Usually, the agency said, the cartel sells its prey on Amazon, ebay or other digital platforms or subject to California merchants.
Chris Swecker, a former Assistant Director of the FBI, told Fox News Digital to rob trains for at least a decade.
“When I was an assistant director, then we dealt with it. If you look back, there was an epidemic for a while, then the police implementation was given the procedure,” Swecker said. “What is even more interesting is that when they do, it is almost like the theft of retail where there is no intervention at the time when it happens. No one comes in the rifles trying to stop theft.”
Michael Ricks, director of the Metro Atlanta region for the Georgia Researchers’ Association, said that the theft of train “is a very lucrative activity for organized criminal groups and cartels.”
“They can get hundreds of thousands if not goods worth more than $ 1 million for sale and washing through … one, two hits of containers,” he said. “So this is actually a relatively common activity for transnational criminal organizations and cartels.”
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Executive command of President Donald Trump to designate cartels as a foreign terrorist organization could help suppress theft training with other cartel operations, Swecker said.
“You can punish anyone who provides a house, a car, cash, money laundering activity to provide material support for a particular terrorist organization,” Swecker said. “It just adds another set of tools.”
“Giving them that appointment would surely help build something like a recovery [when handling train thefts]”Ricks told Fox News Digital.” It is not a coincidence that they happened that they hit Nike a car that has $ 202,000, and this was provided at some level by a kind of internal information. “
