- Warren Buffett’s railway has been targeted by thieves who have robbed more than 4 million goods.
- Judicial filing shows that they have stolen Nike’s shoes, turtle beach gaming headsets, and Scash Mails.
- Organized Crime Groups Board BNSF trains, breaking open containers, and forcing emergency stops.
Federal officials say the Warren Buffett Railway Company has been targeted by thieves who have left with shoes, gaming headsets and more than 4 million worth of goods in the past two years.
Berlinton Northern Santa Fee, owned by the Berkeshire Heathwei group of Buffett, has been repeatedly targeted by gangs with a group of organized crime group of Mexico, before the drug -led Jokon Jokon “L Chopo” led by Gozman, led by Mexico.
According to several complaints filed in Phoenix Federal Court, they are mainly found in the southwestern United States and has increased to 2023. The Los Angeles Times first reported the crime.
Train robbers identify high security containers on California’s Interstate 40 to East Bound BNSF trains. They use Arya, Bolt cutters and other tools to break into boxes and access expensive shoes, tools and electronics.
After that, they cut the train brake system air hose to force the driver to stop emergency. After that, they pull the product by train and hide for their colleagues later to load the box trucks at later location. Judicial filing states that the pepper has been stopped to sell or fencing the seller.
On January 13, a BNSF police officer saw more than a thousand couples along the railway tracks as well as a couple of Nike couple and worked with the authorities to keep the trackers in four of them. Officials later recovered 150 cases of Nigel Sylvester X Air Jordan 4 “Burke Berke”, worth $ 202,500 in a nearby van and has also stopped a U -Hole worth thousands of dollars worth of shoes. The shoe model was about to release on March 14.
In April 2024, police recovered about 1,200 pairs of about 1, 226,000 good shoes. Two months later, he dropped the group’s alleged leader and received $ 3 million worth of goods, which are believed to have been taken from BNSF trains. These items were found in storage units and residential homes, and they included 74 cases of Nike shoes and 108 packs of Nike socks.
In July 2023, authorities recovered 904 boxes of Turtle Beach Stealth Pro Headsets, worth about Almost, 000 600,000, which was filled with a landscape truck and was placed in a nearby motel 6.
Filling shows that in other trips, officials claimed about Nike’s “Dunk Lo Midnight Navy” shoes and six boxes of “Disney NBC Jack Scaws” – a reference to the role of Jack Skillington, possibly “Dreams Before Christmas”.
Authorities have arrested several people in connection with BNSF thefts, 11 charges of being involved in a January degree and a person who thinks he is a rebellious, but the theft continues.
“The BNSF has a strong security protocol, and our department is focused on preventing these incidents on our network,” the company spokesman told the Business Insider. “We are working with the federal, state, local and tribal police departments to interfere with criminal activity and connect our approach to arrest the culprits.”
The spokesman said, “It is important that the entire criminal system, including policy makers, district lawyers and judges, focus on the trend of crime and that these criminals should be held responsible and prosecuted against them so that they can be helped.” “These are not unconscious crimes, especially when many of these packages include the need, food and necessary equipment needed for everyday life.”
According to the Association of American Rail Rods, the largest railway price on cargo thefts last year is more than 100 million. The industry group said that more than 65,000 stolen was stolen in 2024, which was 40 % higher than 2023.
Buffett, one of the world’s wealthy people, worth more than $ 150 billion, monitored BRKSire’s BNSF in 2010. The company’s railway system covers 28 states, earning about $ 24 billion last year and net income of about $ 5 billion.
