The robberies in homes of Joe Burrow and other star athletes were similar, authorities say

(AP) – Men accused of A robbery at the Casinnati Bengals Joe Burrow Campo Mariscal House He took photos of themselves blinking some of the ankle boots: jewelry, watches, designer luggage and glasses worth almost $ 300,000. One of them wore necklaces with pendants showing number 9 and “JB9”, the donkey t -shirt number.

One of the men tried to delete the photos of a cell phone when the police arrested them in Ohio, but the investigators were able to recover the photos and included some of them in a new federal complaint presented by an FBI agent that was revealed on Wednesday.

The investigation has covered several states and led the arrests of six people. Federal authorities say it is a story that involves South American robbery teams that have been attacked to luxury houses throughout the country and A fencing operation Affirm a pawn house in New York City.

In judicial documents, the researchers have not publicly connected the theft of December 9 at Burrow’s house in Cincinnati to other robberies reported in other houses of high profile athletes, but the complaint published on Wednesday said there were similarities in many of the robberies and robberies research is ongoing.

“In recent months, several agencies in all of the United States have shared information by email with respect to these thefts,” the complaint said. “These agencies have had robberies … in which professional athletes were the victims. Many of these cases share patterns of similar events. “

The thieves have also stolen luxury items of the Houses of the Marshal of Campo Patrick Mahomes and the closed wing Travis Kelce of the players of Kansas City and the players of the NBA Luka Doncic of the Dallas Mavericks and Mike Conley Jr. de Minnesota.

Wednesday, three of the four men already accused by local authorities To steal Burrow’s house she was accused of a federal grand jury in Cincinnati for charges of transporting interstate stolen goods and falsifying records related to the same robbery. It was not known immediately if they had retained lawyers who could respond to the accusations.

The Clark County Public Defenders Office in Ohio, which has represented the four men in the state case, did not immediately return telephone and email messages. The four men are from Chile and are illegally, the authorities said.

Also on Wednesday, two other men accused of directing a fencing operation in New York City selling stolen articles throughout the country declared themselves innocent through their lawyers in a federal court in Brooklyn. The researchers alleged that one of the men was linked through telephone records to one of the accused men in the theft of Burrow Home.

Those two men, Dimitriy Nezhinskiy and Juan Villar, were identified by the authorities in judicial documents published on Tuesday. Villar’s lawyer, Lauriano Guzman Jr., declined to comment after the court on Wednesday. A message was sent that a commentary to Nezhinskiy’s lawyer.

The prosecutors said that a lot of alleged stolen properties were found in the effort of two men in Manhattan and in the storage units in New Jersey belonging to Nezhinskiy.

Federal researchers said that the robbery of South America crews, many in the country illegally or exaggerated visas, have been pointing to expensive houses next to green spaces, walking paths, golf courses and unreveloped lands. In general, they have been breaking through rear windows or glass doors, on the second floor when possible, and addressing jewels and designer accessories while leaving other value objects, authorities said.

That is more or less what happened in Burrow’s house, although a security team looked at the property while Burrow and the Bengals were in Dallas playing the cowboys. Someone at Burrow’s house discovered that he had been looted and that a bedroom window was broken.

The Association of Housing Owners gave the police a camera video on a path next to Burrow’s house that showed a man walking through the forest with what seemed to be luggage.

In the criminal complaint published on Wednesday, an FBI agent wrote that the authorities tracked the suspects in a hotel in Fairborn, Ohio, near Dayton, using location data of the cell phone and registration readers. The researchers said they coincided with the data of the cell towers to the locations of a vehicle of interest identified by the registration readers.

Local prosecutors said four men were arrested during a traffic stop: Jordan Francisco Quiroga Sánchez, 22; Alexander Esteban Huaiquil-Chavez, 24; Bastian Alejandro Orellana Morales, 23; and Sergio Andrés Ortega Cabello, 38. Sánchez, Morales and Cabello were accused by the Federal Grande on Wednesday.

According to federal agents, Sánchez and Cabello told the police that they were on vacation in Ohio to see the snow. Huaiquil-Chavez said he was visiting Ohio with others, but he didn’t know his real names, according to the complaint. Chávez acknowledged buying a glass break tool in a housing tank, but did not say why, according to the document.

The authorities said they later found multiple photographs on the phones of men who show stolen articles from Burrow’s house.

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Associated Press Jennifer Peltz writer in New York contributed to this report.

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