Three men have been charged in connection with a brazen heist in which they stole more than 1,200 pairs of Air Jordan Retro 11 shoes from a train parked in the Mojave Desert.
A release from the United States Justice Department indicates that BNSF Railway police were notified on Friday that a shipping container containing Nike merchandise had been separated from the train while it was parked near Amboy , a ghost town in San Bernardino County.
The stolen merchandise had been chipped with a GPS tracking device, officials said, and investigators used the device to locate the stolen shoes inside a rented U-Haul truck in a parking lot in Anaheim.
Inside the truck were 1,278 stolen Air Jordan Retro 11s, valued at $311,832.
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According to the DOJ, the suspects have been identified as 18-year-old Bryan Quintero Echarravia of Mesa, Arizona, 34-year-old Bernardo Romero Quintero of Phoenix and 26-year-old Olegario Flores (no place of residence given).