A shipment of Hot Wheels cars worth an estimated $54,000 has been recovered by police in Southern California after a caller reported suspicious activity involving boxes being loaded into a pickup truck. The discovery in Colton resulted in an arrest and brought attention to ongoing concerns about thefts involving freight trains in the Inland Empire.
According to CBS News Los Angeles, officers recovered approximately 350 boxes of the miniature vehicles believed to have been taken during a recent train heist. The investigation began when someone in a residential neighborhood contacted emergency services after noticing unusual activity near their home…