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Suspected crime tourism ring targeting Southern California neighborhoods
KTLA ^ | November 22, 2024 | Vivian Chow

Posted on 11/23/2024 6:29:26 AM PST by artichokegrower

Residents are worried and remain on high alert after a group of suspected burglary tourists targeted homes in the Santa Clarita Valley.

In the last week alone, at least three homes inside a gated community in Valencia were burglarized.

Neighbors believe their community is being targeted by a South American crime ring and the suspects may even be tracking their every move with drone surveillance.

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The victims suspect the burglars are part of a crime tourism burglary ring from South America.

Crime tourism often involves foreign nationals who visit the U.S. with the sole purpose of committing theft.


First they were illegal aliens, then migrants now they are tourists. Anyhow how’s that sanctuary city program working?

1 posted on 11/23/2024 6:29:26 AM PST by artichokegrower
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To: artichokegrower

I have seen them. Nice looking family, speaks no English. Kids wearing sweaters of from different tourist attractions.

I suspect they came and got the $20k checks, had one hell of a nice vacation, then went back to their nice home in Brazil or wherever.


2 posted on 11/23/2024 6:35:04 AM PST by Sarcazmo (I live by the Golden Rule. As applied by others; I'm not selfish.)
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To: artichokegrower

...”Anyhow how’s that sanctuary city program working? “

Must be working well, that’s what they keep voting for.


3 posted on 11/23/2024 6:38:42 AM PST by farmguy ( )
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To: artichokegrower

Is thei4 leader Gavin newsum?


4 posted on 11/23/2024 6:44:01 AM PST by Bob434
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gated community in Valencia

This community's gate must be as porous as our border wall...

And think about the cognitive dissonance required to live in a gated community in a sanctuary city.

5 posted on 11/23/2024 7:01:12 AM PST by cockroach_magoo (In the land of the deaf, the one-eared man is king.)
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It can't happen here!
6 posted on 11/23/2024 7:16:26 AM PST by Carry_Okie (The tree of liberty needs a rope.)
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To: artichokegrower

Elections have consequences. They voted for this $hit. Enjoy.


7 posted on 11/23/2024 7:23:15 AM PST by wetgundog
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To: artichokegrower

burglary tourists???

??

Such a nice name for illegal alien criminal parasites.


8 posted on 11/23/2024 8:01:33 AM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: artichokegrower

Great place for a set up.
Line the floor with heavy duty plastic bags, and maybe something absorbant.

Nobody needs to know.


9 posted on 11/23/2024 8:13:53 AM PST by CaptainPhilFan (Donald J Trump: OF the People FOR the People WITH the People)
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To: artichokegrower

😁 PC till it hurts!


10 posted on 11/23/2024 8:34:32 AM PST by SMARTY (In politics, stupidity is not a handicap. Napoleon Bonaparte I)
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😁 PC till it hurts!


11 posted on 11/23/2024 8:34:51 AM PST by SMARTY (In politics, stupidity is not a handicap. Napoleon Bonaparte I)
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To: dragnet2

Crime tourism?

Burglary tourist?

Frequent felons?

The corrupt U.S. government is now a travel agency for crime tourist.


12 posted on 11/23/2024 8:35:10 AM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: artichokegrower

I’ve read a bit about this. Don’t know if what I’ve read is accurate or not. The burglars come here legally on tourist visas. Many are from Chile. They scout out rich neighborhoods and steal nice stuff. There are lots of rich neighborhoods in SoCal, so they don’t stay in one place very long, maybe only doing a couple of robberies in each town.

After they sell their loot, they go back home. They are hard to catch because they use very sophisticated methods and techniques to rob places and they quickly move on, maybe 100 miles away.

I’ve spent a little time in Costa Rica, but you can see the same thing right across the border in Mexico. Houses in Latin America are specifically built to resist burglary. Bars on windows, broken glass or razor wire on tall walls that surround the back yard, etc. Someone coming from Latin America and looking at how our homes and yards are built must think that we are really easy pickings.


13 posted on 11/23/2024 10:01:37 AM PST by hanamizu ( )
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Instead of tourist visas we need a special burglary visa.
14 posted on 11/23/2024 10:03:06 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: artichokegrower

I want to feel bad. I really do. BUT, then again. I remember, diversity is our greatest strength.


15 posted on 11/23/2024 10:23:06 AM PST by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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“This community’s gate must be as porous as our border wall...”

The gangs likely made the guards ‘an offer they couldn’t refuse’.


16 posted on 11/23/2024 2:05:29 PM PST by BobL
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“They are hard to catch because they use very sophisticated methods and techniques to rob places”

Give me access to cell phone pings, license plate readers and smart meters (power and water), and I’ll give you everyone in town that has an empty house during the day, or are on vacation.

All the gangs need are a few well-placed contacts. Someday, we might get privacy and access laws into place so we can at least find out how the gangs are getting their info on which homes to hit. One thing for sure, they’re neither casing places nor flying drones, just too labor intensive especially when there are so many EASY database options.


17 posted on 11/23/2024 2:09:53 PM PST by BobL
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The ringleader could be there legally...maybe...

Do people have to sign in, show their driver’s licenses, or is there a parking tag or some such that lets the guard know to let them in?


18 posted on 11/23/2024 3:48:26 PM PST by scrabblehack
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