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[quote=Anonymous][b]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.[/b]

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.”[/quote]

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