{"id":57736,"date":"2025-11-18T01:54:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T01:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/57736\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T01:54:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T01:54:10","slug":"4-suspects-tied-to-alleged-colombian-theft-ring-arraigned-in-northern-california-jewelry-heists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/57736\/","title":{"rendered":"4 suspects tied to alleged Colombian theft ring arraigned in Northern California jewelry heists"},"content":{"rendered":"

Four people suspected of carrying out a series of jewelry store burglaries in Sacramento and Lodi<\/a> as part of an alleged Colombian theft ring have been formally arraigned on felony charges, the San Joaquin County District Attorney’s Office announced Friday.<\/p>\n

District Attorney Ron Freitas said the defendants each face three counts of second-degree burglary in connection with the attempted October burglary at Lodi Pawn & Jewelry and a September break-in at Alba Jewelry in Sacramento.<\/p>\n

The defendants have since been identified as Sandro Fabian Torres-Morales, Orlando Goyeneche-Sanchez, Miguel Alejandro Osorio-Castaneda and Melany Dayan Pascagaza-Correa. After their arrests following the Lodi burglary, law enforcement officials said all were Colombian nationals and that Torres-Morales owned a business in Colombia, “which likely has ties to cartels and organized criminal enterprises.”<\/p>\n

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Authorities say all four suspects were involved in the burglary of Alba Jewelry, where thieves stole an estimated $1.5 million in merchandise after accessing the business through a drilled hole.<\/p>\n

Detectives from the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office had been monitoring the group since that burglary, which they linked to additional thefts throughout the Bay Area and beyond.<\/p>\n

Their investigation ultimately led deputies to Lodi in October, where authorities responded to a break-in at Lodi Pawn & Jewelry. Two suspects were arrested inside the store, a third was apprehended while fleeing, and the fourth was found monitoring the operation from an RV at the Flag City RV Resort, according to the district attorney.<\/p>\n

Inside the RV and at the scene, deputies recovered burglary tools including a signal jammer, as well as property believed to have been taken in the Sacramento theft.<\/p>\n

Freitas said his office is taking the lead on the prosecution as part of an agreement with the Sacramento County District Attorney.<\/p>\n

“This organized crew used sophisticated tactics to target jewelry stores across Northern California. Today we hold them accountable in San Joaquin County,” Freitas said in the announcement.<\/p>\n

Bail for each defendant has been set at $1 million. All four suspects are scheduled to return to court on December 3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Four people suspected of carrying out a series of jewelry store burglaries in Sacramento and Lodi as part…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57737,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[5706,121,123,122],"class_list":{"0":"post-57736","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sacramento","8":"tag-lodi","9":"tag-sacramento","10":"tag-sacramento-headlines","11":"tag-sacramento-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57736","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=57736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57736\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}