Prosecutors said the burglar may be a member of a crime ring from South America targeting luxury homes.
“I just didn’t give him a chance, just hit him, because first of all, I don’t know if he has a gun, a knife, any kind of weapon, right? You just don’t know your mind goes crazy,” Sal Mercado, the homeowner, toldDeputies arrested Alexis Provoste Aranguiz, who faces multiple felony charges in relation to the attempted burglary.
In a news release, Ventura County District Attorney Erik Nasarenko said that Aranguiz is a suspected member of a South American theft group. Such groups are accused of sending criminals on trips to the United States to break into homes and steal before returning to their home countries in a trend called “crime tourism,”“It’s been pretty prevalent for a couple of years,” Capt. Cameron Henderson of the Ventura County Sheriff’s Office told the.
Sgt. Greg Gibson, also with the Ventura County Sheriff’s Office, told the paper the county recorded more than 100 crimes from South American theft groups in 2021.
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