Seven people, believed to be part of a South American theft group (SATG), are in custody because of an investigation by Scottsdale Police Department detectives.
All seven burglary suspects were booked into the Maricopa County jail and facing numerous criminal charges. Each suspect was held on $150,000 cash only bond.
The seven suspects are:
According to the Scottsdale Police Department, all seven suspects were arrested around 4:15 p.m. on Friday, May 23, during the service of search warrant at a short-term rental where they were staying near Camelback and Miller Road.
Items and property related to the crimes they are accused of committing were recovered during the search warrant service.
On May 20, the Scottsdale Police Department received information from the Burbank Police Department of California about a SATG group from Colombia that had allegedly committed burglaries in California, Oregon, and Washington and could be headed to Arizona. The Burbank Police Department included vehicle descriptions, and through the investigation, vehicles matching the given description were located at a short-term rental property in Scottsdale near Camelback in Miller Rhodes.
Scottsdale detectives quickly set up surveillance efforts.
From May 20 to May 22, detectives conducted surveillance on the group of seven. On May 23, during the surveillance operation Scottsdale detectives followed the group to two residences in Tempe and Mesa, where they observed all seven suspects coordinate and participate in burglar activity at both locations.
One home in Tempe was burglarized around 12:25 p.m., and one home in Mesa was burglarized at about 1:30 p.m.
Detectives worked with the victims afterwards to take reports and notify the Mesa Police Department.
Surveillance operations continued, and the suspects were seen returning to the short-term rental in Scottsdale on May 23 at around 4:00 p.m., detectives and Scottsdale Police Department SWAT served a search warrant on the short-term rental property the suspects were staying at, arresting all seven suspects without incident and recovering evidence related to the burglaries in Tempe and Mesa.
Detectives are working to return the stolen property to the burglary victims. A French bulldog was recovered and verified as having been stolen from a burglary in California and unification efforts are on the way.
That’s so weird. My Dem friend was just telling me how illegals don’t really commit crime and the whoke scare over the border is just MAGA racism against brown people. Ooops!!!
Democrat pets.
Let ice get them out of prison in 10 years
So the Burbank cops knew about the group but didn’t arrest them? Would that have caused a stink in Hollywood?
Nice work Scottsdale PD! Thank God we still have one of the finest law enforcement in the country despite the Obama DOJ attempts to cripple it.
go sit in jail till your old – welcome to America
Colombia, not Columbia.
That’s better.