SANTA ANA – Two men have pleaded guilty and been sentenced to time served for stealing about $300,000 worth of Nike goods from a train in the Mojave Desert and then taking them to Anaheim, according to court records obtained Wednesday.
Bernardo Romeroquintero, 34, and Olegario Palma Flores, 26, both of Phoenix, pleaded guilty Tuesday to grand theft and receiving stolen property, both felonies, and a misdemeanor count of possession of burglary tools.
Co-defendant Bryan Humberto Quinteroecharravia, 18, of Mesa, Arizona, who is charged with grand theft and receiving stolen property, both felonies, is a fugitive.
Romeroquintero and Flores accepted a plea deal from Orange County Superior Court Judge Terri K. Flynn-Peister, who sentenced them to 120 days in jail, or time already served, and two years of formal probation.
The BNSF Railway was notified in November that a shipping container stuffed with Nike merchandise had been unhooked from a train parked near Amboy, according to the Orange County District Attorney’s Office. Nike had placed a GPS tracker on the goods, which California Highway Patrol officers used to find the stolen shoes in a U-Haul truck in a parking lot in Anaheim, prosecutors said.
Investigators found 1,278 pairs of Air Jordan shoes and 11 pairs of Retro shoes worth about $311,832 in the rented moving truck, prosecutors said. That gave authorities in Orange County jurisdiction over the case.