3 males arrested for Santa Clarita housebreaking – NBC Los Angeles

Three folks suspected of being a part of a global crime ring have been arrested in reference to a housebreaking in Santa Clarita, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Division introduced Wednesday.

LASD mentioned not less than three folks burglarized a house on the 24000 block of Matthew Place in Santa Clarita on Friday, getting away with jewellery and money. After the housebreaking, sheriff’s deputies performed a site visitors cease of the car the suspects have been touring in.

Two of the suspects within the automobile ran away, with officers having the ability to catch as much as one in every of them. Though the opposite one who ran initially received away, sheriff’s deputies have been in the end in a position to arrest three folks.

The people who have been arrested have been recognized as Owen Rivera-Chacon, Christopher Sanchez, and Edisson Boyaca, LASD mentioned. Detectives imagine they belong to the South American Theft Group (SATG).

All three suspects have been booked at Santa Clarita Station and charged with first-degree housebreaking.

In response to the division, SATG members come from Chile and Colombia and are described as extremely coordinated teams that “more and more goal prosperous neighborhoods and conduct each residential and business burglaries with superior strategies and planning.”

Members regularly place surveillance cameras close to properties they plan to focus on, lease automobiles underneath faux names, use Wi-Fi jammers and talk by way of burner telephones. LASD warns that SATG tends to focus on properties close to parks, trails and golf programs to make for simpler escape.