PHOENIX (Border Report) – As the migrant flow dries up and fentanyl smuggling gets harder with stricter border enforcement, Mexican criminal organizations increasingly are turning to alternative sources of revenues.

One involves sacking cargo trains rolling through the American southwest.

In the past few months, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Arizona has prosecuted at least 15 individuals for allegedly being part of schemes in which trains are brought to a sudden, dangerous stop and looted, and stolen merchandise is hauled away to California or Nevada.

Almost half the suspects facing trial are Mexican citizens from the state of Sinaloa.

Railroad company officials, apparel retailers and trucking company executives earlier this year went before a U.S. Senate committee urging lawmakers to

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