BRIGHTON, Colo. — 13 folks have been indicted on greater than 120 counts after they allegedly stole autos from the Denver Worldwide Airport, Adams County and the Denver metro space.
The fees embrace housebreaking, aggravated motorized vehicle theft, theft and violations of the Colorado Organized Crime Act, in accordance with the seventeenth Judicial District Legal professional’s Workplace.
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The Colorado Auto Theft Prevention Authority‘s (CATPA) Metropolitan Auto Theft Activity Power had adopted a gaggle of suspects for greater than a 12 months forward of this indictment. Between February 2022 and March 2023, the people allegedly stole autos from a number of locations, together with DIA, and used the automobiles to “smash by way of the fronts of companies,” the district legal professional’s workplace mentioned. The suspects would then put straps across the ATMs inside and pull them out, the district legal professional’s workplace mentioned. In different situations, the suspects allegedly stole from shops that bought vaping merchandise.
The group largely focused Ford F-150 Raptors, the district legal professional’s workplace mentioned, but in addition stole Jeep Grand Cherokees, Dodge Challengers, and Dodge Chargers. They have been ready to make use of a device to reprogram key fobs to steal the autos and would disable the car’s GPS monitoring system, the district legal professional’s workplace mentioned. The autos have been typically bought and different occasions disassembled for components, in accordance with the indictment.
In whole, the group allegedly stole 59 autos and tried or accomplished 31 burglaries in Adams, Arapahoe, Broomfield, Boulder, Denver, Jefferson County, and Logan counties.
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In response to the indictment, the group would help one another in evading police. This typically included firing a gun to attract police away from a car theft. Police usually discovered weapons within the autos that have been stolen, the doc reads.
The defendants, and their present standing, have been recognized as:
- David Nava Delgado: In custody
- Carlos Nava Delgado: In custody
- Jorge Cadena Lujan: In custody
- Stephanie Reza Ramos: In custody
- Rene Ruiz Ochoa: In custody
- Cesar Poblano Hernandez: In custody
- Brian Valladares: In custody
- Rodrigo Perez-Gonzalez: In custody
- Hector Escalera Hernandez: In custody in Mexico
- Marc Morales Cisneros: At-large
- Cruz Cordova: At-large
- Jose Merino Ramos: At-large
- Alejandro Silva-Vasquez: At-large in Mexico
A number of companies have been concerned on this investigation, together with the CATPA and its Metropolitan Auto Theft Activity Power, and Colorado State Patrol’s Auto Theft Intelligence Coordination Middle (ATICC) and Beat Auto Theft By means of Legislation Enforcement (BATTLE).
The indictment was signed on Sept. 29 by seventeenth Judicial District Choose Donald Fast.
For years, Denver7 has shared the group’s tales of their stolen autos from DIA. Almost 400 autos have been reported stolen from DIA parking heaps between Jan. 1 and July 31, 2023, in accordance with DIA.
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In late August, the airport, in partnership with the Denver Police Division, introduced new measures to handle auto and catalytic converter thefts inside the airport’s parking heaps, which incorporate greater than 40,000 public areas.
This included elevated patrols, HALO cameras, stolen car alerts, the DenverTrack program, free catalytic converter etching and protections kits, and free steering wheel lock distributions.
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