NC: Illegals steal spikes from Railroad tracks!

Men Charged In Theft Of Spikes From NC Train Track

POSTED: 8:45 am EST March 2, 2010

FLAT ROCK, N.C. -- Two men face deportation after they were arrested in the theft of more than 500 railroad spikes from train tracks still in use in western North Carolina.

Multiple media outlets reported Tuesday the men were charged in connection with the spikes from train tracks near Flat Rock.

Police say they found 37-year-old Cruz Mario Carnacion and 35-year-old Jose Luis Trejo-Yanez with more than 500 7-inch steel spikes, which can be sold for scrap.

Henderson County Sheriff Rick Davis said the missing spikes could have caused a derailment.

The men are charged with conspiracy to damage railroad property, willful injury to railroad property and trespassing on railroad property. They're being held on Immigration and Customs Enforcement orders pending deportation proceedings.

It was unclear if they had attorneys.

Now they cant say "They will steal anything that isnt nailed down" anymore....pwnd

Oh goodness! I have a RR track about a mile from my house. Trains rumble along, which is a pleasant sound, but now, since I have no idea what they are carrying, gotta start figuring out what the neighborhood may be exposed to. Yikes.

They also take copper pipes and wiring out of abandoned houses, and aluminum freeway guard rails, all to sell for scrap.

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They also take copper pipes and wiring out of abandoned houses, and aluminum freeway guard rails, all to sell for scrap.

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As soon as a house is abandoned in Detroit because of foreclosures, thieves break in and steal anything of value, which includes chopping through the drywall to get wiring. A house that is gutted out this way is considered too far gone for any repairs to bring it back to saleable condition.

Yep and they sell them to unwary buyers in lots of up to 200 homes for as little as 10k.

There's a guy who goes around and films them for people, and he had a home where the side and back walls of the house were caving in, but the front looked fine, and it was on a sale list in a block of homes for sale.

$10,000? There was a story posted here a while back where some lady managed to buy the entire property for $1,000 in Detroit. She will probably raze the house but apparently the lot is worth much more than the house, and the cleaning of the lot.

-- calm down. They were only stealing things that Americans won't steal...

....is there not a low that is too low for these people? They must be on drugs. I thought only drugged out bums did this type of thing.

Last spring, a couple bought a dump for 100 dollars. Some places in the Murder, I mean Motor, I mean used to be Motor City that have sold for 50 bucks.

Less than a week after my Gamma passed away, in 04, they started to strip the nice thick aluminum siding Gramma had put on in 1961. The city sorry to say is filled with people who have for 2 to 3 generations depended on government handouts and they think they deserve it, and if they lose it, this is what they turn to. Aside from the fact there is no work there in the city. Back when I was a little squirt in the mid 60s, there were so many jobs to be had, they would take you off the street and start apprenticing you as long as you had a pulse and were breathing. My dad got a job so fast after getting out of the Navy, that they brought him his job app after he had been punched in for 2 hours and already working. All he had to do was fill in his name, address and phone number. They had everything else done for him.

Pair charged with stealing 500 railroad spikes in Henderson County

By Josh Boatwright • March 2, 2010


FLAT ROCK — Henderson County Sheriff's deputies caught two men pulling up hundreds of steel railroad spikes from a section of active train tracks near Flat Rock, Sheriff Rick Davis said.

A witness called 911 around 3:30 p.m. Sunday reporting suspicious activity on the tracks, which are owned by Norfolk Southern Railroad, near West Blue Ridge Road.

Deputies found Cruz Mario Carnacion, 37, and Jose Luis Trejo-Yanez in possession of more than 500 7-inch spikes, which weigh about a half-pound each and can be sold for scrap.

Davis called the pair's actions “incredibly selfish,â€

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BAD DAY AT FLAT ROCK.........what's next? Grave robbing for gold teeth?

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BAD DAY AT FLAT ROCK.........what's next? Grave robbing for gold teeth?

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Shh, don't give them any ideas!

Seems to me the Citizens should be down right outraged by this...hey Janet Nappypolytano..."what ya gonna do"??? You sure made a statement about Tea Party people being classified as "terrorists"..put you money where your mouth is...

Sure let them go back so they can sneak in to the Country again illegally....

Kathyet

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They also take copper pipes and wiring out of abandoned houses, and aluminum freeway guard rails, all to sell for scrap.

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In my area, the illegals that do the building come back at night to steal the stuff. What's funny is that when they were building a house, the home builder decided to put up fake cameras with a a sign that let people know they were being watched. It didn't work. Then they put that same sign up in Spanish, it worked.

In Atlanta Georgia they are stealing the steel grates from the streets (could cause many car accidents and endanger lives), stealing the catalytic converters from under cars for the platinum scrap and of course all the copper from buildings commercial and residential condensers. All of these scrap metal crimes are new to us. We have never had it in this abundance before in my lifetime. :?:

They must have had some inside help. How can they steal so many spikes and not get caught right away. Somebody was asleep at the switch. Probably another illegal alien?

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They must have had some inside help. How can they steal so many spikes and not get caught right away. Somebody was asleep at the switch. Probably another illegal alien?

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Or anchor baby who's sympathetic to their plight!

I know, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Estonia, which has no copper mines, became the largest exporter of copper. They were trying to put up streetlights, but every night the wiring was pulled out.

William,
If you think that's bad, check out http://www.latimes.com/news/nation-and- ... 4979.story

This illustrates rather well that illegals aren't really doing the jobs that Americans don't want to do; but rather undoing the jobs that Americans have already done. And, in a broader sense tearing down a country that Americans have already built.

Another new job along these same lines is cutting down electric power poles in order to get the wire at the top. I don't know if it's illegals doing it though, as the perps haven't been caught yet.

http://www.journalstar.com/news/local/c ... 03286.html