A mob of thieves descended on a stopped freight train in Chicago's Austin neighborhood Friday afternoon, looting cargo containers and making off with stolen goods. This marks the second such incident in recent months along the same rail route.
🇺🇸LOOTERS BREAK INTO CARGO TRAIN IN WEST CHICAGOCPD have been dispatched to prevent people of stealing items.Thieves are looting train cars on Chicago 's west side. There have been several break-ins along this stretch of railroad tracks in recent weeks.The chaos unfolded around 2:40 p.m. Friday in the 4700 block of W. Kenzie before extending to Lake Street and Lockwood Avenue, in the Austin neighborhood.
A mob descended on a freight train that was stopped on the tracks. SkyFOX video captured thieves looting cargo containers and hauling stolen goods away. The train was stopped and awaiting an interchange with a partner railroad when swarms of thieves began opening containers, according to Union Pacific.
“Rail burglaries are not victimless crimes and they pose a safety threat to the public, our employees and local law enforcement officers,” a spokesperson with Union Pacific said in a statement.The railway is no stranger to these type of freight cargo thefts. It was the second time in a few months people allegedly broke into cargo trains on the train route.
It is a crime of opportunity in a West Side neighborhood that Shaw said, for many, is empty of opportunities.It’s nothing compared to the container raids in Los Angeles. The rail yards are covered in discarded boxes. Crime is legal there.More adventurous raids are done in motion – board where the track speed limit is low and throw boxes off for as long as it takes to find interesting stuff to steal. The only surveillance is one to two miles away in the locomotive.
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