LOS ANGELES – Five men were indicted by a federal grand jury for their role in a large-scale theft scheme targeting railroad freight cars carrying costly cargo, including flat screen televisions.
The men were arrested shortly after midnight on June 25 near Ludlow, Calif., after several of them unloaded 45 flat-screen 3-D televisions valued at nearly $200,000 from an eastbound freight car that was parked temporarily on a railroad siding. The arrests capped a two-month investigation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and the Union Pacific Railroad Police, with assistance from the sheriff’s departments in San Bernardino and Riverside counties, the Burlington Northern Santa Fe (BNSF) Railroad Police and the California Highway Patrol.
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