How terrifying migrant gangs are targeting Americans' homes... and yours may be next

Burglaries astatine the homes of Chiefs stars Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelce person opened America's eyes to a increasing crime menace — hi-tech, intelligence-led hits orchestrated by criminals overseas.

Forget astir old-school masked housebreakers carrying swag bags. These crooks are person to the Ocean's Eleven movies, using drones, camo suits, and wifi jammers to blitz the mansions of multi-millionaires.

They've struck the homes of NFL players erstwhile athletes are connected the field, raising fears of much break-ins implicit Thanksgiving, erstwhile the Chicago Bears, the Dallas Cowboys and others volition beryllium playing to packed stadiums.

Gang members run crossed the US, but beryllium to networks successful South America, including Tren de Aragua (TdA), a convulsive group that emerged successful Venezuela's prisons but present causes mayhem crossed the hemisphere.

Experts told DailyMail.com that anemic information astatine the confederate borderline has allowed wrongdoers into the US, and urged the affluent to fastener up their valuables, arsenic this transgression question volition lone get worse.

'We are a agelong mode from getting connected apical of this,' Michael Barbieri, a information adept with Global Intelligence Consultants, told DailyMail.com.

'This is the enactment of an planetary cartel with highly intelligent individuals who usage drones, GPS trackers and surveillance. All of this doesn't hap by accident.'

At slightest 3 nonrecreational sports leagues person successful caller weeks warned players astir skilled burglars targeting athletes' homes for break-ins, including erstwhile they're astatine enactment oregon travelling for games.

Those warnings followed burglaries astatine the homes of NBA and NFL players, including Mahomes, Kelce, and Milwaukee Bucks guardant Bobby Portis.

The Kansas City homes of Mahomes and Kelce were raided hours isolated successful aboriginal October, erstwhile the Chiefs were hosting the New Orleans Saints. 

Burglars made disconnected with $20,000 successful currency and caused $1,000 successful harm to Kelce's home, a constabulary study obtained by NBC shows.

Mahomes called his ordeal 'frustrating' and 'disappointing.'

It's 'something that you don't privation to hap to truly anybody but evidently yourself,' helium said.

Portis said burglars nabbed 'most of my prized possessions' successful the November 2 raid. It's not yet wide whether the stars were targeted by overseas oregon US-based criminals. 

Barbieri noted however the Mahomes' burglars entered his gated assemblage and past his location without arousing suspicion — suggesting they had assistance from inside.

He suspects that electricians, housemaids, plumbers, oregon different tradespeople person worked connected a affluent person's spot and past sold information details to a cartel, who signifier a raid.

This involves utilizing drones oregon surveilling properties by posing arsenic joggers oregon crushed attraction unit to enactment retired however to participate the spot and erstwhile it volition beryllium empty, said Barbieri.

An NFL information bulletin said crooks usage crippled schedules, societal media and different nationalist sources to enactment retired erstwhile to strike.

Players were advised to boost their security, prosecute trusted location sitters, fell valuables, and to debar posting online astir their collections of jewelry, luxury watches oregon flashy clothing.

They were besides advised to person immoderate existent property photos of their interiors pulled down.

An NBA alert warned of 'well-organized, blase rings' of criminals based retired of South America. The burglars were capable to raid homes without tripping alarm systems, it is claimed.

The FBI declined to remark to DailyMail.com astir their investigations.

The leagues' warnings travel amid mounting fears of 'burglary tourists' flying into the US nether a visa waiver program, equipped with disguises and different cogwheel to people plush properties successful gated communities.

Travelling criminals person been operating for the past 5 years, but the strikes person intensified successful caller months arsenic much accusation astir imaginable targets becomes disposable online.

Mansions successful Orange County, California, were aboriginal targets successful a transgression question that has dispersed crossed the Golden State and to North Carolina, Illinois, Texas, New York, New Jersey, Maryland and beyond.

The FBI arrested six South Americans successful Southern California successful August for allegedly targeting immoderate 120 affluent households and businesses crossed 80 US cities from 2018 onwards, resulting successful losses of much than $35 million.

Prosecutors accidental members ran a car rental concern that provided criminals with vehicles and accusation connected people homes, arsenic good arsenic afterward fencing the swag and laundering the proceeds.

Six Chileans were charged successful New Jersey successful May for allegedly operating different burglary ring, which progressive lifting invaluable collections of pearl, golden and diamond jewelry, uncommon coins and different loot.

Sheriff Grady Judd in August warned of a highly-organized Colombian burglary pack that stole $1.7million successful currency and jewels successful respective raids connected 'high end' properties in of the Polk County country of Florida. 

Joseph Humire, manager of the Center for a Secure Free Society, a deliberation tank, said burglary tourism has worsened alongside the accelerated enlargement of Venezuela's TdA pack successful the precocious 2010s.

The group's tattooed bosses were creating a 'complex web of transgression alliances' involving members of Los Gallegos and Los Pulpos gangs, which run crossed Ecuador and Peru, helium said.

'The TdA is simply a authorities sponsored transnational transgression enactment that is empowering transgression networks passim Latin America and bringing this precocious signifier of criminality to the US,' Humire told DailyMail.com.

Barbieri successful portion blames the Biden Administration for allowing an influx of foreigners crossed the confederate borderline — mostly radical looking for work, safety, and accidental but successful immoderate cases radical with transgression intent.

'When you fto 15 oregon 20 cardinal radical crossed the borderline without due vetting, you're evidently going to get these pack members,' Barbieri said.

'Now we're suffering the consequences of an unfastened border.'