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.
“Police with railway operator BNSF were notified that the contents of a shipping container carrying Nike merchandise had been separated from the train while it was parked outside the desert town of Amboy, California, nearly 200 miles northeast of Los Angeles,” the district attorney for Orange County said in a statement.
The California Highway Patrol’s investigators found a U-Haul vehicle in an Anaheim parking lot after Nike embedded a GPS tracker in the Air Jordan package.
Grand theft and receiving stolen items are the two felony counts against Bryan QuinteroEcharravia, 18, of Mesa, Arizona; Bernardo Romeroquintero, 34, of Phoenix; and Olegario Flores, 26. The last two men are also charged with misdemeanor possession of burglary tools.
If found guilty on all counts, their maximum punishment is three years in state prison. Immediately, it was unclear if the men had legal representation.
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“Organized theft rings are no match for the sophistication and determination of law enforcement to track down these thieves, arrest them, and prosecute them to the fullest extent of the law,” District Attorney Todd Spitzer stated in a news release. “In Orange County, it’s not a matter of if, but a matter of when you will be caught and you will be prosecuted.”
