They rapidly discovered the agony of de-feet.
Three males are accused of stealing greater than $311,000 value of Air Jordan sneakers from a prepare parked in a California ghost city — a brazen heist that was derailed by a GPS tracker connected to the stolen merchandise.
Bryan QuinteroEcharravia, 18, Bernardo Romeroquintero, 34, and Olegario Flores, 26, had been busted on Nov. 22 for pilfering 1,278 Nike Air Jordan 11 Retro sneakers value $311,832 after breaking into the parked prepare within the Mojave Desert, in response to the Orange County District Lawyer’s Workplace.
The alleged sneaker thieves then moved the cargo right into a rented U-Haul truck and transported the stolen items to Anaheim.
Prosecutors stated their plan misplaced steam when cops traced a GPS tracker Nike had positioned within the cargo — to forestall theft — to their actual location.
“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,” Orange County District Lawyer Todd Spitzer stated.
“In Orange County, it’s not a matter of if, but a matter of when you will be caught, and you will be prosecuted.”
Police and railway operator BNSF had been initially alerted that the transport container carrying the high-priced sneakers had been lacking from the prepare, prosecutors stated.
Investigators with the California Freeway Patrol tracked the GPS to an Anaheim parking zone and seized the swanky basketball sneakers from contained in the rental truck.
The three males had been every charged with felony grand theft of cargo and receiving stolen property, prosecutors stated.
Romeroquintero and Flores had been additionally slapped with possession of housebreaking instruments, a misdemeanor.
They face most sentences of three years in state jail if they’re convicted on all counts.
