When two men stole a semitrailer truck filled with millions of dollars in Dell computers in West Memphis, en route from Shanghai to Mt. Juliet, Tennessee, they may have gotten away with it — had it not been for a cargo theft coalition of local, state and federal law enforcement.

Memphis is one of three cities that has a major Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) task force committed to investigating cargo theft. Tampa and Miami have the other two.

The Memphis Cargo Theft Task Force is made up…