Colombian gang held for burgling house of ex-CS

BENGALURU: Five Colombians, including a lady, have been arrested by means of Jayanagar police for allegedly burgling two flats, including that of former Karnataka leader secretary Kaushik Mukherjee, in HSR Layout.
South division police showed the arrests, but were not drawing close on the details. Police investigations are believed to had been hampered first of all by means of the problem of translation, as the Latin Americans seem to be at home in Spanish, whilst their interrogators are but to find the appropriate translator.

The arrested are Roger Smith, Edward Alejandro, T Belia, J Gloria and Josh Edward. TOI learnt that they came to India within the first week of June and stayed in OYO rooms in a Shivajinagar hotel. They have been arrested from the hotel in connection with five circumstances of robbery in Tilaknagar, HSR Layout and Jayanagar.

Police mentioned the five Colombians have been produced in court docket and despatched into police custody for additional investigation. “Details will likely be shared as soon as investigations are entire,” DCP (South division) S D Sharanappa mentioned.

Police resources showed the crowd’s involvement in burglaries at the properties of Mukherjee and a businessman in Jayanagar. The gang, on the other hand, failed in two burglary makes an attempt previously 15 days in South Bengaluru.

THE PEDRO GANG

This is not the first time that Latin Americans had been arrested for criminal activities in Bengaluru. Central Crime Branch (CCB) police had arrested a gang of four headed by means of one Pedro in Goa in March 2010, for allegedly stealing gold value Rs 1.5crore every week earlier, from Pride Hotel in Central Bengaluru. Later, police learnt that that they had committed an identical offences in Chennai in 2009.

The gang of four gave police the slip after being released on bail. Police on their trail found that the crowd had burgled a jewellery store in Tumakuru, but have been not able to nab them once more.

Police mentioned they don’t wish to rule out any connection between the Pedro gang and the brand new five-member gang. “The lady and a man some of the five look similar to those arrested in 2010, and an additional probe would disclose the truth,” a police officer mentioned.

Cops have been mum on how they controlled to arrest the gangsters, and what was recovered from them, but admitted that that they had a tough time interrogating the Spanish-speaking foreigners.

CAMERAS HELPED

CCTV pictures recovered from a Jayanagar silk merchant’s place of dwelling the place a burglary strive had failed on June 22, helped police nail the Latin American gang.

The pictures confirmed the girl, suspected to be T Belia, arriving at the place of dwelling in a high-end automobile. Her head covered in a scarf, the girl is seen ringing the calling bell and peeping throughout the home windows, it seems that to confirm there was no one within.

The lady is then seen sitting on a bench within the porch and calling her associates. Within two mins, two males wearing caps and gloves arrive and check out to break open the door, whilst the girl waits. The trio flees on spotting the CCTV camera.