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Two men person been charged with 1 felony number each of receiving stolen spot precocious connected Saturday (June 13, 2026) aft England's nationalist squad discovered that immoderate of its instrumentality had been stolen portion The Three Lions were moving from their pre-training basal successful Florida to their World Cup basal campy successful Kansas City.
Prosecutors successful Jackson County, Missouri, charged Mustafa Salik and Erfan Kamal, some of San Antonio, Texas, with the people D felony, which carries a condemnation of up to 7 years successful prison. Bond was acceptable astatine $75,000 for each of them.
“Jackson County volition not tolerate immoderate transgression enactment that targets World Cup visitors, including the planetary teams that person travelled present to compete,” Jackson County authoritative Melesa Johnson said. “We convey the Kansas City Police Department and our on-call attorneys for their speedy enactment successful filing charges immediately."
None of the stolen property, which was estimated astatine astir $18,000 successful value, was indispensable to England's preparations.
According to a probable origin connection obtained by The Associated Press, items recovered successful Salik and Kamal's possession included 9 pairs of cleats, goalkeeper gloves, a World Cup shot ball, respective sets of shirts and shorts, electronics, stuffed animals, respective signed nationalist squad jerseys and a Lego acceptable of Nike Air shoes valued astatine $99.99.
“I americium grateful for the speedy enactment of the Kansas City Police Department and the prosecutor's bureau successful resolving an probe crossed respective states, helping transgression victims retrieve goods stolen successful transit, and ensuring the accused volition look prosecution,” said Kansas City, Missouri, Mayor Quinton Lucas said successful a connection precocious Saturday (June 13, 2026).
“Kansas City's nationalist information enactment volition proceed to guarantee each are harmless and offenders volition beryllium held accountable swiftly.” The theft occurred earlier England's charter pitchy arrived successful Kansas City astatine astir noon connected Saturday (June 13, 2026).
The squad was greeted archetypal astatine its upscale boutique edifice successful Prairie Village, Kansas, by the drum corps, cheerleaders and mascot of the NFL's Kansas City Chiefs. Then, The Three Lions headed to an unfastened grooming league astatine Swope Soccer Village, wherever MLS nine Sporting Kansas City erstwhile trained, and wherever its second-division squad and academy programs are inactive based.
The England emblem was flying supra the complex, and a ample motion stated that it was “The Home of England," portion hundreds of fans and reporters greeted greeted the squad connected a hot, humid day for the assemblage grooming session.
The signifier ended astir 2 hours earlier tornado sirens sounded crossed the metro and a dense tempest rolled done town.
Even though England does not play radical games successful Kansas City, it made its basal determination owed to its cardinal location. Its opening crippled against Croatia connected Wednesday successful Dallas is lone astir a 90-minute flight, matches against Ghana successful Boston and Panama successful New Jersey are astir 3 hours away, portion the West Coast is easy reachable for imaginable knockout games.
Defending champion Argentina and the Netherlands besides are based successful Kansas City. Algeria is successful neighbouring Lawrence, Kansas.
