" Dozens
of guns"
have been stolen from looted freight cars in recent months in Los Angeles as trains lay on the tracks, the city's police chief said.
“People were breaking into these containers and stealing guns, dozens of guns
,” Police Chief Michel Moore said at a meeting, whose remarks were reported by the
Los Angeles Times
newspaper on Wednesday .
“It has been a great source of concern for us”
for safety in the city, he continued.
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Images of thousands of ripped open boxes and packaging strewn on railroad tracks near the city center drew authorities' attention last week to the looting, which involves most of the major U.S. distance selling and couriers (Amazon, Target, UPS, Fedex, etc.).
The thieves take advantage of the fact that the long railway convoys are immobilized on the tracks to climb on the containers of goods and break the locks.
They then only have to help themselves in parcels, leaving behind them in an impressive bric-a-brac products that are difficult to resell or too cheap, which will never reach their destination.
