{"id":237481,"date":"2026-04-19T01:51:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T01:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/237481\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T01:51:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T01:51:12","slug":"man-wanted-in-2-million-weston-burglary-ring-extradited-to-broward-nbc-6-south-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/237481\/","title":{"rendered":"Man wanted in $2 million Weston burglary ring extradited to Broward \u2013 NBC 6 South Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"

A man wanted in a $2 million burglary ring targeting a Weston community was extradited to Broward following his arrest in Indiana, records show.<\/p>\n

Jose Elias Barrozo-Espinoza, 38, was booked into Broward’s main jail on Sunday on charges including burglary with damage and grand theft, records showed.<\/p>\n

Barrozo-Espinoza, who according to records has an alias of Fabian Eliseo Llancavil Nahuel, had been arrested back on March 21 by police in Zionsville, Indiana.<\/p>\n

Zionsville Police said officers were investigating a report of a man dressed in black running through backyards in a neighborhood and used a drone to help take him into custody.<\/p>\n

\"Drone<\/p>\n

Drone video shows the arrest of a Broward burglary suspect in Indiana.<\/p>\n

According to a Broward Sheriff’s Office arrest warrant, Barrozo-Espinoza was wanted in connection with the Nov. 8, 2025, burglary in Weston.<\/p>\n

Police say he was not acting alone<\/p>\n

The home was burglarized by suspects who broke a glass window and removed a safe containing about $500,000 worth of gold and jewelry, the warrant said.<\/p>\n

The victim wasn’t home, but found her master bedroom ransacked and safe removed.<\/p>\n

Blood was found near the shattered window, and DNA testing showed it belonged to Barrozo-Espinoza, the warrant said.<\/p>\n

Barrozo-Espinoza’s bond was set at $200,000, but he had an immigration hold, Broward jail records showed.<\/p>\n

Part of something bigger<\/p>\n

The City of Weston said Barrozo-Espinoza is believed to be part of a larger, highly organized operation from South America that targets high-end homes.<\/p>\n

In a release, the city said homeowners in the Windmill Ranch neighborhood had been targeted \u201cby a sophisticated group of thieves who carried out residential burglaries with losses of more than $2 million.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"<\/p>\n

Released by the city of Weston.<\/p>\n

How did they do it?<\/p>\n

BSO detectives said the group conducted \u201cdetailed surveillance of their victims\u201d before breaking into homes, where they would \u201ctarget safes to steal cash and jewelry.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pictures shared by investigators show Wi-Fi jammers, two-way radios, and other tools the group allegedly used to commit the burglaries, authorities said.<\/p>\n

The 911 call that led to an arrest<\/p>\n

With the arrests of Barrozo-Espinoza and Daniel Osorio-Valencia, along with four others detained on unrelated charges, BSO believes it has put a stop to the crime spree, though the investigation remains ongoing.<\/p>\n

Osorio-Valencia was arrested in December after two suspects attempted to burglarize a home in the same community.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe alert homeowner called 911 after receiving an alert on his phone. BSO deputies responded and captured one of the suspects, Osorio-Valencia,\u201d the City of Weston said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man wanted in a $2 million burglary ring targeting a Weston community was extradited to Broward following…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":237482,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250,15353],"class_list":["post-237481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news","tag-weston"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237481","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=237481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237481\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}