Posted on 11/18/2022 8:36:02 AM PST by george76
LOS ANGELES - A year-long investigation into the theft of train cargo resulted in the arrest of 91 people, the Los Angeles Police Department announced.
Since July 2021, law enforcement agencies in Southern California, were investigating a series of train burglaries that occurred in Los Angeles.
Shocking images, taken in January 2022, showed thousands of torn up packages and boxes stretched along the Union Pacific rail lines east of Downtown Los Angeles.
Cargo thieves would break into the containers, as the trains slow down or stop in the area, go through packages and take what they can.
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91 people were arrested and $18 million worth of stolen train cargo was recovered.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxla.com ...
Emperor of the North. He knew how to take care of hoboes.
They were mostly Latinx. Some of the refugees from war torn countries just trying to make something of their lives I suppose.
How can that be? Stealing is not a crime. Its a “civil” matter. Let them go.
Yeah, well it took the train operators started refusing to ship to LA, before the press took notice. And only then did authorities, think we need to clean this up.
Do they know if any individual stole more than $950 worth?
yep—arrest of 91 people, and this afternoon’s news will be the release of 91 people.
That’s more than the creep who mowed down all those cadets in LA. He’s out on bail because the DA claims there’s not enough evidence!
Are they all out already?
Excellent! Thank you very much!
Funny, not one word about the perps. Descriptions. Connections. Nothing.
Very unlikely this was a bunch of homeless people who were tired of looting stores decided to loot a massive train.
Those poor homeless needed all that stuff more than those bad companies that are ripping people off and making all those profits. They didn’t do nuffin.
The Shack was not Emperor of the North; that was A-No.-1, the hobo played by Lee Marvin.
Great movie. I try to see it whenever it’s on. “You got no class, kid!”
I’m sorry but we are going to have to start hanging thieves.
There are too many of them and they aren’t afraid of having to go to prison.
Isn’t robbing trains a federal offense?
— $18 million of goods recovered.
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Where were they keeping all that?
Unless it was only two carts full of groceries and a SUV full of gas.
Good point. The answer seems to be "it depends.
Norfolk Southern train robbery becomes a federal case in N.C.18 U.S. Code § 2116 - Railway or steamboat post office: "Whoever, by violence, enters a post-office car, or any part of any car, steamboat, or vessel, assigned to the use of the mail service, or willfully or maliciously assaults or interferes with any postal clerk in the discharge of his duties in connection with such car, steamboat, vessel, or apartment thereof, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both."December 20, 2013
News & ObserverRALEIGH, N.C. — When two armed men stepped aboard a parked Norfolk Southern train on April 29, 2012, they became the state’s first train robbers in recent memory. Train robbery, under the eyes of the law, is a crime that affects interstate commerce and punishment can rise to the federal level. The two men robbed an engineer and conductor of $30 cash and credit cards, but they are each facing charges of up to 20 years in prison, a $250,000 fine and three years probation.
Interestingly, carjacking can immediately rise to a federal offense because the vehicle was previously transported in interstate commerce!
18 U.S. Code § 2119 - Motor vehicles: "Whoever, with the intent to cause death or serious bodily harm [1] takes a motor vehicle that has been transported, shipped, or received in interstate or foreign commerce from the person or presence of another by force and violence or by intimidation, or attempts to do so, shall—"
Federal Robbery Crimes
The United States has enacted a number of statutes that provide for certain robbery crimes against the federal government. The following situations, in addition to the normal elements of the crime of robbery, can lead to prosecution under federal law:
Good movie...
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