Three Arizona men were charged Wednesday with stealing about $300,000 worth of Nike goods from a train in the Mojave Desert and then taking them to Anaheim.
Bryan Humberto Quinteroecharravia, 18, of Mesa, Arizona, Bernardo Romeroquintero, 34, and Olegario Palma Flores, 26, both of Phoenix, Arizona, are charged with grand theft and receiving stolen property, both felonies, and Flores and Romeroquintero also face a misdemeanor count of possession of burglary tools.
The BNSF Railway company was notified on Friday that a shipping container stuffed with Nike merchandise had been unhooked from a train parked near Amboy, according to the Orange County District Attorney’s Office. Nike had placed a GPS tracker on the goods, which California Highway Patrol officers used to find the stolen shoes in a U-Haul truck in a parking lot in Anaheim, prosecutors said.
Investigators found 1,278 Air Jordan and 11 Retro shoes worth about $311,832 in the rented moving truck, prosecutors said. That gave authorities in Orange County jurisdiction over the case.
Flores and Quinteroecharravia pleaded not guilty and were scheduled to return to court for a pretrial hearing Dec. 6 in the North Justice Center in Fullerton.