South Asian homes in Fairfax targeted by Latino theft ring: over $2M in stolen goods

[Anonymous]

Interesting story of over a dozen break-ins in specifically targeted South Asian and Arab NOVA sub-divisions. The target? Home safes and jewelry.

The culprits? Latin American thieves who fly in for specific crime sprees and then go home with the loot.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/01/11/burglaries-crime-tourists-target-asians/


The operation was the culmination of a years-long investigation into a skilled burglary ring, one that authorities say netted about $2 million by focusing on a very specific target: high-end homes of Asian and Middle Eastern families in the D.C. suburbs.
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Law enforcement experts say cells of professional South American burglars, particularly from Colombia and Chile, are entering the country illegally or exploiting a visa waiver program meant to expedite tourism from dozens of trusted foreign countries.
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The robberies had begun four months earlier, but after nearly two dozen of them, Fairfax County police were no closer to finding the perpetrators. There would be roughly two dozen more burglaries over the next two years without much more progress. The lead detective, Samuel Song, referred to the perpetrators as “ghosts.”

[Anonymous]

Face it. Asians are targeted for crimes because everyone knows they have a higher probability of having wealth. They're also targeted because Asians are stereotyped for being passive, weak, and most likely not to fight back. Asians should be exercising their rights to bear arms to teach these punks a lesson. I am Asian myself, and have no qualms at all about throwing down if I need to in order to defend myself. One of these days these racist hoodlums are going to pick the wrong Asian person to try to intimidate, steal, harass, or attack. I can't wait until they get what's coming to them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Face it. Asians are targeted for crimes because everyone knows they have a higher probability of having wealth. They're also targeted because Asians are stereotyped for being passive, weak, and most likely not to fight back. Asians should be exercising their rights to bear arms to teach these punks a lesson. I am Asian myself, and have no qualms at all about throwing down if I need to in order to defend myself. One of these days these racist hoodlums are going to pick the wrong Asian person to try to intimidate, steal, harass, or attack. I can't wait until they get what's coming to them.

You should read the article. The attackers actually live in nice, middle-class subdivisions themselves. And the Asian homes were attacked because they had a high probability of cash on hand. Which - averaging 30 homes and $2 million worth of gold, cash, and jewelry stolen that's about $60,000 a house - is accurate. Otherwise agreed.

“These subjects were clean subjects who lived for the most part in suburban neighborhoods in nice houses,” Gimenez said. “They have kids going to private school. They are setting up Christmas lights one week. The next [week], they are traveling to a different part of the country to rob someone.”

[Anonymous]

That’s a lot of cash and gold to have in your house. Wow.

[Anonymous]

If you have that much, why wouldn't you have a nice safe?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you have that much, why wouldn't you have a nice safe?

The thieves took the safes too.

And Fairfax is expensive but anyone not living in a gated community, which is most of them, is not going to have the 10,000 square feet needed to have an additional safe room which cannot be breeched.

For the most part the thieves broke in by simply breaking a glass back door.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you have that much, why wouldn't you have a nice safe?

or a safe deposit box at a bank.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you have that much, why wouldn't you have a nice safe?

The thieves took the safes too.

And Fairfax is expensive but anyone not living in a gated community, which is most of them, is not going to have the 10,000 square feet needed to have an additional safe room which cannot be breeched.

For the most part the thieves broke in by simply breaking a glass back door.

+1. Installing a decent safe is a complicated thing. It should be planned when a house is being built, not as an after thought. Also, the best safe, is one that nobody knows about.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you have that much, why wouldn't you have a nice safe?

or a safe deposit box at a bank.

Not Asian but I think they are keeping all this cash at home (in literal physical currency or gold/jewels which can be transformed into currency) because they don't trust banks. That and its easier to fool the IRS if you're not making bank deposits especially with Biden's new $600 deposit rule.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you have that much, why wouldn't you have a nice safe?

or a safe deposit box at a bank.

Not Asian but I think they are keeping all this cash at home (in literal physical currency or gold/jewels which can be transformed into currency) because they don't trust banks. That and its easier to fool the IRS if you're not making bank deposits especially with Biden's new $600 deposit rule.

you can put hard currency and gold bars in a safe deposit box. If it's a cultural thing, that's probably why they were targeted. Hopefully they were above board with their insurance companies when they took out their policies and they get it all back.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you have that much, why wouldn't you have a nice safe?

or a safe deposit box at a bank.

Not Asian but I think they are keeping all this cash at home (in literal physical currency or gold/jewels which can be transformed into currency) because they don't trust banks. That and its easier to fool the IRS if you're not making bank deposits especially with Biden's new $600 deposit rule.

you can put hard currency and gold bars in a safe deposit box. If it's a cultural thing, that's probably why they were targeted. Hopefully they were above board with their insurance companies when they took out their policies and they get it all back.

Closures of some branches temporarily during covid showed a real downside to keeping assets in a safe deposit box. These folks already have plenty of assets in the bank. The hard currency and gold is kept as an alternative investment. They specifically do not want it in a bank.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you have that much, why wouldn't you have a nice safe?

or a safe deposit box at a bank.

Not Asian but I think they are keeping all this cash at home (in literal physical currency or gold/jewels which can be transformed into currency) because they don't trust banks. That and its easier to fool the IRS if you're not making bank deposits especially with Biden's new $600 deposit rule.

you can put hard currency and gold bars in a safe deposit box. If it's a cultural thing, that's probably why they were targeted. Hopefully they were above board with their insurance companies when they took out their policies and they get it all back.

Closures of some branches temporarily during covid showed a real downside to keeping assets in a safe deposit box. These folks already have plenty of assets in the bank. The hard currency and gold is kept as an alternative investment. They specifically do not want it in a bank.

If they have riders on their homeowners insurance, they'll get the value back.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you have that much, why wouldn't you have a nice safe?

or a safe deposit box at a bank.

Not Asian but I think they are keeping all this cash at home (in literal physical currency or gold/jewels which can be transformed into currency) because they don't trust banks. That and its easier to fool the IRS if you're not making bank deposits especially with Biden's new $600 deposit rule.

Actually, this is mostly about part B. This is almost all for tax purposes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you have that much, why wouldn't you have a nice safe?

or a safe deposit box at a bank.

Not Asian but I think they are keeping all this cash at home (in literal physical currency or gold/jewels which can be transformed into currency) because they don't trust banks. That and its easier to fool the IRS if you're not making bank deposits especially with Biden's new $600 deposit rule.

Actually, this is mostly about part B. This is almost all for tax purposes.

Agreed. Definitely about hiding the assets and avoiding taxes.

I’m South Asian, FWIW.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Face it. Asians are targeted for crimes because everyone knows they have a higher probability of having wealth. They're also targeted because Asians are stereotyped for being passive, weak, and most likely not to fight back. Asians should be exercising their rights to bear arms to teach these punks a lesson. I am Asian myself, and have no qualms at all about throwing down if I need to in order to defend myself. One of these days these racist hoodlums are going to pick the wrong Asian person to try to intimidate, steal, harass, or attack. I can't wait until they get what's coming to them.

I have a client at work who frequents the shooting range in Frederick. He has commented that there has been an increase in the number of Asian customers, especially middle-aged Asian women.

OT, but I think the ‘progressives’ who think that the right to bear arms is only important to redneck, White men, will find they are sorely mistaken.