announcing the charges in August<\/a>.<\/p>\nOfficials said the ring registered the vehicles at licensed tag agencies in Berks, Lehigh and Dauphin counties as well as the PennDOT headquarters in Dauphin County.<\/p>\n
After washing the vehicle titles, the group sold the cars to private buyers as well as at auctions and dealerships, officials said.<\/p>\n
The most popular vehicles sold were luxury brands Porsche, Mercedes, BMW, Land Rover, Audi, Lexus and Infiniti, and most of the sales happened in 2022 and 2023, authorities said.<\/p>\n
Troncoso is charged with nine felonies and six misdemeanors, including felony corrupt organizations, washing vehicle titles and theft by deception.<\/p>\n
Pablo Correa, 40, also was recently arrested in Mexico City, Sunday said. Prosecutors previously said Correa listed an address in Apopka, Fla.<\/p>\n
Troncoso and Correa were arraigned in Dauphin County Court, with bail set at $1 million and $500,000, respectively.<\/p>\n
\u201cCapturing these individuals were high priorities since we filed charges in August, alleging Troncoso orchestrated this highly-profitable scheme here in the commonwealth,\u201d Sunday said. \u201cI thank our federal partners, and other law enforcement that assisted in apprehending these individuals and bringing them to Pennsylvania, where they will face very serious criminal charges.\u201d<\/p>\n
The following were previously charged:<\/p>\n
\u2022 Brandon Troncoso, 22, of Reading. He is Anthony Troncoso\u2019s son.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Aida Flores, 43, of Reading. She is Brandon Troncoso\u2019s mother.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Christina Demase, 40, of Riverside, Calif. She is Anthony Toncoso\u2019s girlfriend.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Jean Garcia Rodriguez, 25, of Reading.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Samantha Rosario, 26, of Reading.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Heicha Vega-Baez, 34, of Reading.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Michael Ramirez, 36, of Homestead, Fla.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Fabiola Lucena, 35, of Miami.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Jose Ariza, 38, of Bronx, N.Y.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Jeffrey S. Candelo, 27, of Lawrenceville, Ga.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Dario Jimenez-Lopez, 43, of Miramar, Fla.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The leader of a vehicle title-washing ring that operated in Pennsylvania \u2014 including in Berks and Lehigh counties…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24503,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[349,202,433,182,139,28,736,128,130,129,432],"class_list":["post-24502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-berks-county","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-lehigh-county","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-reading","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-top-stories-tmc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24502\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}