Thieves Continue to Raid Container Trains

In the San Francisco Bay Area, flash mobs are raiding everything from Home Depots to Louis Vuitton. But in Los Angeles, as I noted here four weeks ago, thieves only have to break into containers on board stalled railroad trains.

NBC-LA news has not only documented that thieves are still breaking into containers on Union Pacific trains, it captured video of them doing it. It also contacted some of the intended recipients of the now-empty boxes to let them know why their packages were late.
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When the news team showed the video to Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanue, his response was, “Wow! This is new to me.” That’s funny; if someone 700 miles away knew about it four weeks ago, why wouldn’t the county sheriff know about it?

“We’re gonna put someone on that,” he said reassuringly. Of course, in California, if the value of goods stolen is less than $950, it’s only a misdemeanor.

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8 Responses to Thieves Continue to Raid Container Trains

  1. LazyReader says:

    Private security. Is a circumstance we’re seldom talked about.
    Blackwater founder; started a company to protect ships from pirates. Piracy in section of somalia declined………

    Chain stores and businesses don’t usually permit their employees from arming themselves. Private ones usually do.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5_33nqaGeQ

  2. JimKarlock says:

    “Of course, in California, if the value of goods stolen is less than $950, it’s only a misdemeanor.”
    That’s no excuse to not put them in jail for the max for a misdemeanor.

    Then the store owner should sue for damages. Full restitution PLUS enforcement costs.

  3. rovingbroker says:

    At the same time, unemployed soldiers scattered to rail yards and rail cars, where they maintained their existence by robbing, looting, and becoming a growing danger to society.

    In order to combat the alarming upswing in theft and robbery, however, railroads began implementing their own law enforcement. They hired contractors to investigate millions of dollars in the loss of freight and luggage.

    https://tomrizzo.com/railroad-detectives-combat-crime/

    Today, real crooks would hack into the railroad computers, re-route a container or two, have it delivered to a safe and secure location and then sell that location to the owner for bitcoin.

  4. JOHN1000 says:

    Suing them for money judgments is useless. These crooks do not have bank accounts or property to go after and the courts can do nothing to people who don’t pay court cases.

    Since all of these trains travel interstate or carry goods that come from other states, it can be a federal matter. But our current federal justice department will do nothing unless the crooks are wearing MAGA hats,

    The only solution is armed security. but it is a guarantee that the same authorities who won’t go after the crooks will do anything and everything they can to prosecute any company which hires armed security if any crooks are injured or even forced to stop robbing goods.

  5. prk166 says:

    If we’re going to talk about this, we need to talk about UP’s role and their responsibilities. Given the location at a yard, this spot has likely been going on for decades, probably even generations.

  6. Ted says:

    “talk about UP’s role and their responsibilities”

    Victim blaming. Niiiiiice.

  7. prk166 says:

    Ted, pointing out that a store that is repeatedly robbed at the same is lacking in basic security is not victim blaming. Even a 5 year old can handle nuance like that.

  8. Ted says:

    prk166 is the kind of asshole who thinks a woman in a skirt walking alone after dark is to blame is she gets raped.

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