In one January robbery near Perrin, Arizona, thieves cut an air brake hose on a BNSF freight train and ran off with more than 1,900 pairs of unreleased Nike shoes worth more than $440,000.

Police said they were able to recover 218 cases of Nike shoes valued at about $408,000. A Burlington Northern Santa Fe train, with dozens of shipping containers, rolls through the High Desert.

Arizona authorities have arrested two people in connection with a series of train heists that resulted in the theft of Nike shoes worth millions. On Thursday, officials with the Hualapai Nation ...