Thieves target another source for stolen goods: Delivery trucks and trains full of packages
Images from video show emptied boxes along rail tracks in Los Angeles after thieves broke into Union Pacific cargo trains.
Source: NBC4 | Los Angeles
Instead of shoplifting from stores, some thieves are zeroing in on another target: Trains and delivery trucks full of packages on the way to customers’ doorsteps.
UPS Chief Executive Carol Tome said Friday that one of the company’s 18-wheeler trucks was robbed in Atlanta in the early hours of the morning. She said thieves hijacked the truck after the driver left one of the delivery company’s largest hubs.
“He was stopped at gunpoint. He was zip-tied, thrown into the back of his feeder car and they took the packages,” she said on CNBC’s “Squawk Box.” The robbery took place in late December, according to an NBC news report.
In downtown Los Angeles, a video from the local CBS station shows looted packages littering the train tracks. Thieves raided cargo containers and left behind cardboard boxes that had been carrying purchases from Amazon and REI, including some with UPS labels and tracking numbers, according to the report. Those abandoned boxes carried merchandise ranging from unused Covid tests and fishing lures to EpiPens, according to tweets from one of the TV station’s reporters.
According to a report from NBCLA, the thefts have been an ongoing issue in recent months.
Images from video show emptied boxes along rail tracks in Los Angeles after thieves broke into Union Pacific cargo trains.
Source: NBC4 | Los Angeles
