Chicago police investigate freight train burglary

To some breaking news now, Sky Fox is over a scene where police are actively investigating. This is a freight train burglary in Douglas Park. This is happening near 18th and Western. And you can see, look at the packages. As we zoom in closely, they're just all over the tracks. We know this is a thing that's been happening. And in fact, the Cook County Sheriff's Department has a unit actively working to stop this, stop people from opening up those trains and stealing packages. not too long ago they recovered cell phones for example oddly enough I was just on a bus with them last week where someone went into just like this a freight train found aloe all these other different you know consumer goods that we buy that we wear and they traced it to a store we're actually going to have that report hopefully for you later this evening but this is a major issue that has continued to be pretty pervasive in our area. And I remember very starkly that video of the people stealing the big screen TVs a couple of years ago. I mean, and there were dozens of people arriving. Tia, I'm so anxious to see your story because I want to know how these thieves are able to infiltrate these supply chains and find out which of those rail cars contain the goods that they want. Sometimes it's literally just luck of the draw. um in some cases they have no idea what's going to be inside um in this case it looks like maybe they didn't find exactly what they wanted because a lot of the packages completely tossed out um but sometimes they do know and the question is how um and so that's going to be the interesting peg of our story hopefully we can get that story uh flipped around today there's a lot of intricate information and detail into it i can tell you at least in our case two people were arrested they were selling this stuff stolen stuff off of a train like they were selling it at a store like we're talking about opened up a whole store with a majority of the store being stolen items from a train so people are brazen they're bold and I do want to give hats off to the Cook County Sheriff's Department because again they have an active unit that is on the ground trying to prevent this now can they prevent it all around the clock no but they have done a very good job of trying to go after these folks and hopefully interrupt that chain that you're talking about, which then overall we'll see these crimes go down. So that's the hope here. Yeah, because I'm sure it costs the consumer more in the end.