Mob of up to 30 looters, some armed, ransack freight train in Chicago

Wild quality chopper footage captured the infinitesimal a mob of astir 30 people, immoderate armed, according to police, looted a freight bid in Chicago connected Friday and made disconnected with appliances similar aerial fryers and flat-screen TVs.

At slightest six radical were arrested pursuing the incidental which took spot astatine astir 2:40 p.m. arsenic the double-stacked bid was stopped and awaiting an interchange with a spouse railroad connected the city’s West Side, Union Pacific tells Fox News Digital.

Swarms of thieves tin beryllium seen opening instrumentality doors and past plundering the boxed goods. Police vigor communications said the suspects were equipped with guns and fastener openers, Fox 32 Chicago reports, citing police. 

The bid was stopped, awaiting an interchange with a spouse railroad, erstwhile thieves began opening containers. Rail burglaries are not victimless crimes, and they airs a information menace to the public, our employees and section instrumentality enforcement officers.

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A mob of astir 30 radical looted a freight bid successful Chicago connected Friday and made disconnected with appliances similar aerial fryers and flat-screen TVs. (WFLD)

The suspects load the stolen goods into respective vehicles, and successful astatine slightest 1 instance, a achromatic container motortruck appears connected the country to assistance the looters instrumentality distant their ill-gotten gains. 

"They're getting creative, they're bringing a U-Haul to the alley now," a constabulary serviceman tin beryllium heard saying implicit constabulary radio. 

As the daylight robbery takes place, Chicago Police Department (CPD) officers get connected the country and gully their weapons, forcing the mob to fly the scene, video footage shows. The melodramatic incidental took spot adjacent Lake St. and Lockwood Avenue, Union Pacific tells Fox News Digital. 

Witnesses told ABC7 that the burglary had been taking spot for astir an hr earlier constabulary arrived.

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Boxes spill retired from the freight train. (WFLD)

"Rail burglaries are not victimless crimes, and they airs a information menace to the public, our employees and section instrumentality enforcement officers," a Union Pacific spokesperson tells Fox News Digital. 

Union Pacific says that immoderate of the stolen merchandise has been recovered. 

The spillover from the incidental stopped rider postulation astatine astir 4:40 p.m., Metra announced that inbound and outbound Union Pacific West Line trains were halted adjacent Kedzie owed to "ongoing constabulary activity," per Fox 32. 

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Wild quality chopper footage captured the infinitesimal a mob of astir 30 radical looted a freight bid successful Chicago connected Friday and made disconnected with appliances similar aerial fryers, appliances, and flat-screen TVs. (WFLD)

At 6:50 p.m., Metra said UPW bid work had resumed betwixt Elburn and Maywood but remained suspended betwixt Maywood and Chicago, informing riders to question alternate transportation. 

Train robberies are not uncommon successful the Windy City, arsenic a akin incidental took spot successful August, ABC7 reports.