‘Burglary tourists’ travelled from Chile to steal £80,000 of goods from Surrey homes
A Chile theft gang posing as a tourist to steal more than 80,000 £ from the houses in Surrey and London was imprisoned for 17 years.
Between November 3 and December 11 last year, the group carried out at least 11 breaks in wealthy regions.
Watches, designer clothes and jewelery before searching for properties, forcing the entrance to the entrance to the first and second floors of houses and apartments.
In a raid in EPSOM on December 3, the inhabitants were not swinging Christmas gifts and were not thrown in the hall.
On November 3, the 22 -year -old thief Israel Contreras, Hillingdon’da fled a property fled the mobile phone. Inside, the police found screenshots from a matching application with pins in London houses. DNA from Contreras was also rescued from a broken angle grinder knife left behind at a theft in Esher and tied a series of crimes.
Contreras was the first to be arrested on December 5, trying to take a flight from Heathrow Airport to Chile. He was accused of conspiracy to steal.
On December 11, civil servants stopped the rest of the gang in Red Hyundai on the Fulham Palace of London. The 29 -year -old driver Eduardo Marquez tried to reverse and get out of the way out, but the tool was celebrated. The police found a levy stuck in the pockets of theft at the earliest of the day, as well as jewels, as well as other vehicles hidden in his waist and clothes.
The passengers were described as Yeico Fernandez, a 25 -year -old Yeico Fernandez, who came from Chile the same morning and joined the gang within a few hours to start robbing the houses, and was arrested with jewelry and stolen goods.
In Guildford Crown Court, Contreras was sentenced to five years and three months of imprisonment; Marquez up to six years nine months; Fernandez two years nine months; And Carrasco is for two years and nine months.
The investigation officer Sergeant Ben Deacon said: “We know that the theft of physical and emotional impact is on the victims and a wider community.
“Finally, I want any Burglar-Burgs to read this, I want them to understand the following: Contreras thought that he had escaped his crimes, but he was arrested a few minutes after freedom. Fernandez entered England with an intention of theft, but before this country, he spent less than 12 hours in this country.
