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Discarded packages, shredded boxes: Photos renew attention on Los Angeles cargo theft

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Union Pacific train tracks in downtown LA littered with thousands of shredded boxes and packages stolen from cargo containers.
Union Pacific train tracks in downtown LA littered with thousands of shredded boxes and packages stolen from cargo containers. Photograph: Irfan Khan/Los Angeles Times/REX/Shutterstock

Newly released photos and videos showing train tracks littered with discarded boxes have cast fresh attention on the theft of packages from cargo containers crossing through Los Angeles in recent months.

On tracks near downtown Los Angeles, a team from Agence-France Presse on Friday found packages with labels of most major US mail order and courier companies. Reporters from CBSLA on Thursday found boxes from retailers including Amazon, REI and others. CBSLA reported that Union Pacific, the railroad company operating the cargo trains, had cleaned up the area of tracks where the boxes were found three months ago and again about 30 days ago.

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