Posted on 04/25/2019 8:40:53 AM PDT by BenLurkin
International thieves from Chile are suspected of committing hundreds of burglaries across Southern California after obtaining visa waivers to enter the United States, authorities said.
For months, a sophisticated ring of burglars have targeted affluent homes, businesses and cars in Los Angeles and the counties of Alameda, Orange, San Bernardino, Santa Clara and Ventura, lifting jewelry, guns and other valuables, police said.
A similar spate of burglary tourism is occurring in Texas, Arizona, Colorado, New York and other states, as well as several European countries, the FBI said.
Simi Valley police, working with the California Highway Patrol and Ventura County deputies, arrested three Chilean men for multiple vehicle burglaries. Each was here on temporary visas, police said.
The men, aged 22 to 29, used a jamming device to prevent car owners from locking their vehicles, a news release said. The device interrupts the signal when car owners activate the lock on key fobs.
The visa waiver makes it hard for police to learn the real identities of the crooks, investigators said.
The ESTA Electronic System for Travel Authorization visa waiver allows citizens from 38 countries to visit the United States for tourism, business, study or medical purposes for 90 days.
Crime patterns began emerging in Southern California in the past year.
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‘For months, a sophisticated ring of burglars have targeted affluent homes, businesses and cars in Los Angeles and the counties of Alameda, Orange, San Bernardino, Santa Clara and Ventura, lifting jewelry, guns and other valuables, police said.’
You Trump-haters wanted OPEN BORDERS, well, you got them...now ‘enjoy’ them.
About 20 years ago a shop offering high end, hand crafted furniture opened in a north Orange County industrial park. They had some beautiful examples of their work in their showroom.
One problem was that the furniture wasn’t their own, it was some that they were pretending to have built.
Another problem is that they weren’t going to build any furniture. Their business plan was just to take a lot of downpayments from prospective clients, and then to return to their home country with a wad of cash before anyone caught on.
Which is what they did.
You get to steal $900 of merchandise in California.
Those things are necessities! You cant arrest or prosecute those people for stealing necessities!
/sarc just in case."
You forgot: "Let them touch those things for once!"
You forgot: “Let them touch those things for once!”
Wow if they wanted to steal stuff they should have gone to Dallas, First $750 free and no prosecution.
The program was started under Bush. Ya can look it up.
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