{"id":282967,"date":"2025-10-07T02:00:17","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T02:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/282967\/"},"modified":"2025-10-07T02:00:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T02:00:17","slug":"los-angeles-based-coolkicks-owner-arrested-for-buying-500k-worth-of-stolen-nike-shoes-clothing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/282967\/","title":{"rendered":"Los Angeles-based Coolkicks owner arrested for buying $500k worth of stolen Nike shoes, clothing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                   CBS News Live <\/p>\n<p>          <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/keyart-losangeles-1920x1080.jpg\"   class=\"temp__img\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                              <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/losangeles\/live\/\" class=\"embed__headline-link\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>          CBS News Los Angeles<\/p>\n<p>          Live<\/p>\n<p>                      <\/a><\/p>\n<p>The owner of a popular online sneaker resale business was arrested in Los Angeles last week for allegedly buying half a million dollars&#8217; worth of stolen Nike shoes and clothing, according to police.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Adeel Shams, 34, who owns Coolkicks, was arrested Thursday after Los Angeles Police Department officers executed a search warrant in the 1700 block of Stewart Street in Santa Monica, said a news release shared by the department on Monday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/screenshot-2025-10-06-at-6-28-01-pm.png#.png\" alt=\"screenshot-2025-10-06-at-6-28-01-pm.png \" height=\"270\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  Some of the items recovered by police during a search warrant served in Santa Monica last week.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                Los Angeles Police Department<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;During the operation, detectives recovered an estimated $500,000 worth of stolen train cargo, including unreleased Nike shoes and clothing,&#8221; the release said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Officers recovered over 2,100 pairs of stolen Nikes and 150 cartons of various Nike clothing inside of the business, according to LAPD&#8217;s release.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Shams was arrested at the scene and booked for receiving stolen property, police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This case underscores the importance of interagency collaboration in combating large-scale cargo theft and preserving the integrity of commercial supply chains,&#8221; LAPD said.<\/p>\n<p>As their investigation into the matter continues, detectives said that they anticipate making further arrests.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who knows more was asked to contact LAPD at (213) 486-5920.<\/p>\n<p>      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/team\/dean-fioresi\/\" class=\"content-author__name\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dean  Fioresi<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"content-author__text\">Dean Fioresi is a web producer for CBS Los Angeles. He covers breaking news throughout Southern California. When he&#8217;s not writing about local events, he enjoys focusing on sports and entertainment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CBS News Live CBS News Los Angeles Live The owner of a popular online sneaker resale business was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":282968,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1582,276,2961,224,5337],"class_list":{"0":"post-282967","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-la","11":"tag-los-angeles","12":"tag-losangeles"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115330418334967988","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282967\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}