Officials said that 36 handguns and 46 shotguns were stolen over several months from the trains and that LA police have reacquired only a handful of the firearms.
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- Three recently traced weapons were tracked to be part of a batch of handguns reported missing as they were shipped by train from LA to Tennessee, according to officials.
- Officials also said that two shotguns found on local criminals were traced to similar shipping circumstances.
- The firearm theft was orchestrated by an LA gang, police reported.
- The gun thefts were part of a more significant trend of thefts in Los Angeles that has seen $5 million in goods stolen over the last year from trains stopping at Los Angeles’s ports.
- The thefts have attracted the attention of the Union Pacific Police Department, a specialized police force in train thefts. The train thefts gained national attention on Jan. 15 after images of the debris left by the thieves went viral.
- Union Pacific and local police have squabbled over who is to blame for the thefts, considering that Union Pacific has downsized its security forces in recent years.
SOURCE: WASHINGTONEXAMINER
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