Stolen Nike Shoes Worth $3M Found in Kentucky Home (Video)

Epoch Video
6/3/2014
Updated:
6/3/2014

Thousands of pairs of missing shoes have resurfaced in Kentucky. The Nike shoes were reportedly stolen 5 years ago.

The Radcliff Police Department spotted the sneakers in the yard of a local home. Zetta Thompson and her daughter where the one selling the shoes. The women were getting rid of them for only five dollars per pair, according to them they had no idea the footwear were stolen and say purchase the shoes from another woman in Casey County.

Nike was able to confirm the shoes were stolen by checking the shoes shipping labels.

Zetta Thompson said. “ Apparently Nike had called and i contacted to them and the shoes were stolen since 2009 and they were three million dollars worth a shoes in my backyard and they confiscated all of them.”

Thompson and her daughter have not been arrested or charged with any crime but the investigation is still ongoing.

Little information has been released about the heist, but thus far, it’s known the shoes were supposed to be shipped from a Nike distribution center in Tennessee to at different on in Texas at the time it went missing.