A break from the political to take a moment for unsolved mysteries in the headlines.

I'm Jenna and this is Smarter News.

Well, maybe I'm projecting, but I thought when it comes to the news, we could all use a little change of pace and just a word of warning in case you have young years around some of the topics we're going to tackle today deal with life and death. Not the first one, though. The first one's going to bring us back to a different era, an era of railway thievery. Who knew we are still very much in that era where cops and robbers are confronting each other on the desolate American frontier. We're talking

about this because of a sudden revelation in a court filing that nearly a half million dollars of

Nike shoes were swipes from a train last month. And it turns out this is not an isolated event,

but part of a much broader story. In fact, millions of Nikes have been stolen in a slew of train robberies. And this matters not just

because of the shoes, but the fact that train robbery has increased, costing some of our nation's

largest railroad companies, more than $100 million last year alone. By the way, in that particular

case, we do have an immigration storyline, too, that I'd be remiss not to mention since

that's another big news stories that we're covering. But 10 of the 11 people charged related to

this crime were in the country illegally, one was legally pursuing an asylum claim. So we'll keep

you posted on that. But the robberies in general are not isolated to immigration status and

generally consists

of thieves following slower trains and rural areas that they can board and offload these goods

to a car following along.

Sometimes the robberies are more advanced than that, including disabling parts of a train

to slow it down or stop it.

But here's the big picture.

Train robberies have increased 40% from last year to more than

65,000 thefts. That's according to one trade group. And since America's railroads are second only to

trucks when it comes to moving freights around our country, this is really something to watch.

It could impact the companies, but also impact the goods that are getting delivered,

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