Chilean gangs that rob luxury homes in the US reappear
They use cutting-edge technology, such as electronic devices and jammers capable of unlocking and jamming alarm systems.
A gang that had been the center of attention a few months ago in Oakland County, Michigan, appears to have returned to attacking luxury homes.
According to recent statements by Michael Bouchard, sheriff of Oakland County, Chilean gangs are once again robbing luxury homes, dealing heavy blows to law enforcement and, of course, the victims of these robberies.
The last time we heard about this, losses were running at a million dollars a week and the heists seemed to be getting more and more sophisticated.
"We believe there have been at least three or four group raids in Oakland County in the last four or five days," the sheriff said.
“The houses were empty, very large luxury houses, attached in areas with little or no observation by the neighbors,” the sheriff continued.
In videos captured by security cameras, you can see well-equipped thieves easily knocking down glass doors, deactivating alarm systems and even very easily sliding a half-ton safe down some stairs before taking it away. to a rental car.
“When they get here they are very well trained, very organized. They look like ninjas, they are masked, they wear gloves and each one has a backpack with their specific tools for the robbery,” said Bouchard.
In addition to the use of mechanical tools, they also use cutting-edge technology, such as electronic devices capable of unlocking alarm systems and frequency jammers, capable of blocking wireless signals from security systems.
They are very fast and very sophisticated.
In previous coups, the police went to work and generated strategies to deter thieves, forcing them to migrate to other cities. However, now they appear to have returned from Los Angeles, California, New York, Tennessee and Ohio, acting with greater experience and more efficiency than ever.
Bouchard says the last group of criminals arrested received training in Chile, but “now we know that we have teams from Colombia, and New York intelligence has teams from criminal gangs from Venezuela.”
They rent hotel rooms, apartments, use digital platforms such as Airbnb and use disposable IDs in case they are arrested.
They are also using trail cameras, drones and cell phone jamming equipment, conducting a lot of surveillance, watching specific homes that are behind golf courses, ponds and forests.
The police chief asks citizens to be attentive to suspicious behavior, especially late at night, vehicles that circulate slowly, observing and monitoring the movements of the houses, as well as recommending the use of a hardwiring cable alarm system that should remain on.