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California Police Arrest Colombian ‘Burglary Tourists’ Twice in 2 Months

The trend involves South Americans who enter the U.S. supposedly as tourists, then target affluent homes to burglarize.
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California Police Arrest Colombian ‘Burglary Tourists’ Twice in 2 Months
From left: Bryan Martinez Vargas, Jose Antonio Velasquez, Luis Carlos Moreno and Edison Arley Pinzon Fandino. Glendale Police Department
Jill McLaughlin
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Police in Glendale, California, arrested Colombian burglary suspects May 20 nearly three weeks after they arrested them for the same crime, the police department announced.

Four suspects–Bryan Martinez Vargas, 28, Jose Antonio Velasquez, 28, Edison Arley Pinzon Fandino, 27, and Luis Carlos Moreno, 29—all in the U.S. from Colombia, were arrested at about 10:30 p.m. in Glendale.

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