A suspected train theft in Colton, California, ended with police stopping a pickup truck and recovering 350 boxes of Hot Wheels. The Colton Police Department valued the toy cars at $54,000 and said it had arrested one suspect.
The response began around 3 a.m. Thursday, when a caller reported a theft near the end of Maple Street. Audio included in the department’s video captures the caller directing police toward the trains.
“Yeah, they’re robbing the trains down here at the end of Maple Street,” the caller says. An officer positioned himself near South 7th Street and South La Cadena Drive, where he could hear boxes being loaded…