According to the law enforcement agency, Cartel in Sinarois has collected hundreds of thousands of Nike shoes from the BNSF trains that are running on the latest railway robbery between California and Arizona.
Eleven members of the criminal organization across the Mexico border have the federal custody on January 17 after stealing products from a railway vehicle north of Phoenix. Arizona.
BNSF employees have notified the police after finding an air hose disconnected on a freight train near Perin, Arizona. The Railway Police parked a box struck a few miles away and later noticed some wooden frames located near the track.
Police stated that Toyota Kamuri stopped leaving the Ford Econnolin Box Struck area and had identified the residents as Haekotoperaza and Sadiel Martinezo. While the suspect was distracted, the other authorities put the tracking device in the waiting box.
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SINALOA CARTEL members are said to have used this box struck to offload a Nike shoe worth $ 202,500 from the BSNF train on January 17, 2025. (National Land Security Survey)
It is reported that some people have seen some people load crates into a box struck. The Arizona Public Security Bureau tracked Kingman, Arizona. fence.
The tracking device led them to the Chevrolahhh, which pulled the wooden frame. Inside, the authorities found 150 Nike products, equivalent to $ 202,500.
Peraza, Soto, Valdes, Castro, and other individuals were charged with the vain or receipt of the stolen product from the state shipment. Nine of them were illegally in the United States, while six were indigenous of Sinarois.
HSI said that the same theft has increased in the past two years.
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The Mexican soldiers were guarded on March 14, 2022 next to the graffiti of Palmas Altas's drug secretary mayyozambada and the crime group “Cartel de Sinaroa”. (AFP via Pedro Paldo/Getty image)
“If the organization targets the columns that are interested, they will find a place where some robbery get on the train,” said the agency. “The robbery opens the door of the container while the train is moving, targets target products such as electronic devices, tools, and footwear.”
Cartel members look for a car with a security rock and steal the content using metal reduction saws, bolt cutters, and other tools. In other examples, associates interfere with the traffic light system of the train by cutting the lock in the signal box and falsifying the wiring.
When the train stops, use a mobile phone to share the location with other cartel members who are driving a box struck or small trailer on a nearby road to pick up the stolen products.
“Suspects often cut the airhose of the train brake system and the train will be urgently stopped,” HSI stated in a court document. “This act is very dangerous, the trains can derail, and may cause serious injury or death to the employees or citizens of the railway company.”
“This is also a dangerous act of creating a” dark area “on the railway network. The train moves at a speed of 70 miles / h with multiple trucks east and west. The dispatcher and train crews depend on the signal of safe transportation. ”
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According to the National Land Security Survey, members of Cinaro Cartel attacked the BNSF train on January 17, 2025. (Robinbeck/AFP via Getty Image)
The agency usually stated that the cartel was sold to Amazon, ebay, or other digital platforms, or California retailers.
CHRIS Swecker, a former FBI assistant director, told Fox News Digital that the cartel has been taking trains for at least 10 years.
“When I was an assistant director, we were dealing with it at that time. Looking back, if there was a trend for a while, the law enforcement agency handled it,” said Swecker. 。 “What is more interesting is that when they do it, it's like a retail theft without intervening when it happens.
Michael Lix, the Director of the Georgia Gangsian Association, Michael Lix, stated that the stolen train was “a very advantageous activity for organized crime groups and cartels.”
“They can get hundreds of thousands of people to sell and wash more than 1 million dollars … one and two container hits,” he said. “So this is actually a relatively common activity for criminal organizations and cartels across borders.”
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Swecker said, President Donald Trump's presidential order, who designates the cartel as a foreign terrorist organization, may help suppress theft of trains along with other cartel operations.
“In order to provide material support to the specified terrorist organization, you can punish those who provide Stash House, Car, Cash, Money Laundering,” says Swecker. “Just add another tool set to the tool box.”
“Giving them to them will certainly help build something like an assault. [when handling train thefts]”Rix told Fox News Digital.
