potential jewelry stores<\/a> while disabling alarms and gaining access to the shops, according to cops, who were surveilling the crew.<\/p>\nBut the group of Colombian nationals was caught in the act while trying to commit another heist at Lodi Pawn and Fine Jewelry Thursday, according to police \u2014\u00a0 who swooped in as the burglary was unfolding.<\/p>\n
Just before the police bust, the group broke into the store by cutting a hole in a brick wall, shutting off power and disabling the building\u2019s alarm system, cops said.<\/p>\n
Thanks to the quick action of the cops no jewelry was taken from the store and all four were arrested.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The crew included a demolition expert, according to cops. Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office<\/p>\n
Correa was an \u201coffice manager\u201d for the crew, police said. Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office<\/p>\n
Goyeneche-Sanchez is a member of an alleged crime ring. Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office<\/p>\n
Sandro Torres-Morales, 49, Orlando Goyeneche-Sanchez, 41,\u00a0 Miguel Osorio-Castaneda, 49, and Melany Pascagoula-Correa, 25, were taken into custody.<\/p>\n
The crew is believed to be tied to an international crime ring that has stolen millions of dollars of jewelry, Gandhi said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThese guys are really sophisticated in what they do. They had a female who had registered cars under her name and would serve as kind of an office manager,\u201d said Gandhi.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Cops swooped in as the jewelry store break-in was unfolding Thursday. KXTV-TV<\/p>\n
The crew cut a hole in the wall of the store, cops said. KXTV-TV<\/p>\n
\u201cWe believe that they are responsible for several of these types of heists throughout the state, if not, even more. We know one of the members owns a jewelry store in Colombia. We believe there are ties to cartels.\u201d<\/p>\n
The crew is scheduled to appear in court on Oct. 20.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A \u201chighly sophisticated\u201d Colombian crime ring with likely cartel ties drilled through concrete and made off with more…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10647,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8,8179,723,10038,10039,3586],"class_list":["post-10646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-colombia","tag-crime","tag-heists","tag-jewel-heists","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10646\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}