A Chilean gang robbing luxury homes is busted in the United States

(from Santiago, Chile) a Chili Band Dedicated to Robbery of luxury residences fell into a position of Oklahoma, USA. According to local media, their crimes were committed when the owners were not on the premises, almost by looting USD$5 million on a criminal “tour” of 20 robberies committed in the states of California, Texas, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Arizona and Minnesota.

The group was captured when they entered a house where the owners were, who managed to call the police, who carried out an operation in which three were detained and a fourth arrested. He ran awayAccording to the clinic notes.

“We believe they may all be part of a robbery ring based out of this country. At this time, investigators are trying to identify the other people involved,” he said. Gary Knight A spokesperson for the Oklahoma City Police Department told Oklahoma City News 4, according to local media.

“It is possible that this fact is connected with others. That led us to another suspect, and now we have a Arrest warrant against it”.

Knight thus specifically mentioned Alejandro Vicente Gallardo, A fourth member of the group who is a fugitive and who entered with A Visa Waiver in the country, but did not leave the document after it expired.

The incident comes less than a year after Chile’s permanence in the visa amnesty program was questioned, an issue that has taken over the political agenda in the United States since the president of the House of Representatives, a Republican. Kevin McCarthyThe presence of “international spearheads” from the country threatened to withhold program funds.

“When we mark the allocations coming in the coming weeks, we will include a provision (…) when it comes to Chile we will not allow you to use the money. Visa Exemption Until this problem is resolved,” the politician mentioned on the occasion, according to Fox News.

After this Orange County District Attorney, Todd Spitzer, Allege that Chilean authorities have refused to provide criminal information about compatriots who came to North America to practice the so-called. “Robbery Tourism.”

“Now we’re looking for more than that 350 thousand chiles They have come here in the last year from a country of only 19 million. He organized crime Infiltrating our homes. They are sophisticated. “They don’t come and force their way in through the front door,” McCarthy said.

Memory of in the United States Sebastian Briones Tapia, a famous Chilean thief who stole from an electronics store and made a fortune of USD$1 million. He was caught after an intensive operation last year, when he tried to rob a jewelery store in the state of Indiana.

According to the former prosecutor Rodrigo Lazo“This makes criminals real Market study The country where it is most profitable to commit crime and whose penal system is most favorable to them.

Unfortunately, according to Lazo, “this a Non-traditional exports Very damaging for Chile. Of course, we are known as the country of origin of criminals, usually what it does is obstruct the path of citizens who honest And they go to that country as tourists or to work,” he asserted.