Owners thought they had been hiring cleaners, however in keeping with Los Angeles police, they as a substitute obtained cleaned out.
Following an investigation, LAPD officers introduced Thursday they arrested two ladies who they think posed as a cleansing crew to realize entry to houses within the San Fernando Valley, the place they allegedly stolen hundreds in money, jewellery and high-end baggage.
Nikol Quiroga, 30, and Sandra Aguillon, 49, each Colombian nationals, have been booked on suspicion of grand theft and are suspected to be a part of a “bigger transnational organized crime group,” in keeping with a information launch from the LAPD.
The ladies are accused of creating pretend profiles on a cleansing service app, which allowed them to realize entry to the houses, police mentioned.
Throughout the investigation, detectives recovered $50,000 in money, jewellery and high-end purses belonging to a number of victims in a search of the ladies’s condominium and automobiles. Police additionally discovered of their possession Wi-Fi jammers, which can be utilized to disarm cameras and alarms, cellphones, path cameras, GPS trackers and stolen license plates, the discharge mentioned.
For a while now, officers have been warning about so-called “housebreaking tourism,” wherein theft rings from South America have traveled to america to focus on houses in prosperous neighborhoods. In Could, seven Colombian nationals had been arrested on suspicion of burglarizing houses in Burbank.
Detectives mentioned they proceed to seek for further victims and suspects within the San Fernando Valley case. Anybody with info can name LAPD’s business crimes division, main theft process power at (213) 486-5920 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477.
