{"id":13675,"date":"2025-03-17T11:50:24","date_gmt":"2025-03-17T18:50:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=13675"},"modified":"2025-04-07T11:52:44","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T18:52:44","slug":"the-great-nike-robbery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2025\/03\/17\/the-great-nike-robbery\/","title":{"rendered":"The Great Nike Robbery"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2025-02-23\/freight-train-heists-targeting-nike-merchandise-are-probed-as-related\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from the Los Angeles Times<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Inside the Mojave Desert train heists targeting Nike sneakers<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>by Alex Wigglesworth<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/ny\/api\/res\/1.2\/jcDmhNEJEMgE0nH8UfMvWA--\/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTEyNDI7aD0xMDEy\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/la_times_articles_853\/ac07d228bb44d2db9c4f977eb7dcc5df\" alt=\"Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway (BNSF), transcontinantal railroads, Arizona, USA. (Photo by Walter Homann\/Construction Photography\/Avalon\/Getty Images)\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>A BNSF train in Arizona.\u00a0(Walter Homann \/ Construction Photography \/ Avalon \/ Getty Images)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The thieves stealthily board eastbound freight trains, hiding out until they reach lonely stretches of the Mojave Desert or high plains far from towns. They slash an air brake hose, causing the mile-long line of railcars to screech to an emergency stop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then, they go shopping.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That\u2019s the modus operandi described by investigators in a string of at least 10 heists targeting BNSF trains in California and Arizona since last March. All but one resulted in the theft of Nike sneakers, their combined value approaching $2 million, according to investigators.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2025-02-23\/freight-train-heists-targeting-nike-merchandise-are-probed-as-related\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at LA Times<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from the Los Angeles Times Inside the Mojave Desert train heists targeting Nike sneakers by Alex Wigglesworth The thieves stealthily board eastbound freight trains, hiding out until they reach lonely stretches of the Mojave Desert or high plains far from towns. They slash an air brake hose, causing the mile-long line of railcars to screech [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13675\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}