FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. \u2014 A man suspected in a six-figure jewelry heist at a Weston home in November was captured in the Midwest in late March and was extradited to South Florida over the weekend, authorities said.<\/p>\n
Leer en espa\u00f1ol<\/a><\/p>\n Broward Sheriff\u2019s Office documents state that Jose Elias Barrozo-Espinosa, 38, is also known as Fabian Eliseo Llancavil Nahuel. <\/p>\n Under that name, police in the wealthy Indianapolis suburb of Zionsville, Indiana arrested him<\/a> after using a drone to track him down on March 21.<\/p>\n Zionsville police said he was spotted in a neighborhood and had \u201ca window punch and rubber gloves, items commonly associated with burglary activity.\u201d<\/p>\n BSO deputies extradited Barrozo-Espinosa from the Boone County, Indiana jail on Sunday, records show.<\/p>\n Deputies said the native of Chile left blood behind at the Weston scene on Nov. 8, proving crucial to identifying him.<\/p>\n According to an arrest warrant, at the Weston home, \u201cunknown suspects\u201d shattered a master bedroom window and got in, stealing a safe containing roughly $500,000 in gold and jewelry.<\/p>\n DNA evidence taken from blood left on a shade near the shattered window and on the floor came back to Barrozo-Espinosa.<\/p>\n An Indianapolis news outlet reports<\/a> that Barrozo-Espinosa also has a warrant out of Texas and that the case is linked to \u201csimilar cases of South American gangs targeting suburban homes.\u201d<\/p>\n Several other Chilean nationals<\/a> have been accused of burglarizing homes nationwide, including those belonging to professional athletes<\/a>.<\/p>\n The BSO arrest warrant doesn\u2019t identify the homeowner, whose address was redacted.<\/p>\n As of Tuesday afternoon, Barrozo-Espinosa was being held in the BSO Main Jail on a $200,000 bond and an immigration hold.<\/p>\n \ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/p>\n Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com – All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. \u2014 A man suspected in a six-figure jewelry heist at a Weston home in November…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":231777,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-231776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231776\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}