In 2025, robbers aren’t going for gold or money on trains. They're targeting Nike shoes and electronics in heists that sound straight out of the Wild West.

Federal agents have indicted dozens of people for what they characterize as blatant thefts of train-loads of Nike shoes in California and northern Arizona.

Thieves have targeted freight trains running through the deserts of California and Arizona in a string of audacious heists resulting in the theft of more than $2 million worth of new Nike sneakers, including many that haven’t hit the retail market yet,

Migrant thieves targeting slow-moving freight trains through remote parts of California and Arizona have run off with more than $2 million worth of not-yet-released Nike sneakers in a series of movie-like heists,

Last year, stolen pairs of the then-unreleased Air Jordan 11 "Legend Blue" worth more than $200,000 were recovered after allegedly being stolen from a train in California. That headline is just the tip of the iceberg of a heist syndicate targeting Nike sneakers,