Wealthy West Coast suburb is living in fear as South American gang uses sinister tech to track their every move

Residents of a affluent West Coast suburb are terrified that a South American pack is surveilling them intimately utilizing drones to people their homes. 

Three homes successful San Clarita Valley in a gated Valencia community were precocious burglarized, and locals are convicted the thieves are connected to a South American gang, according to KTLA.

Locals judge the pack members are piloting drones to spy connected their homes and spot if the spot is bare earlier smashing their mode into the affluent neighborhoods. 

'A fewer days ago, we noticed that determination were drones flying supra our house,' a resident, who asked to stay anonymous, told KTLA. 'It appears they’re utilizing blase exertion to surveil the location to spot who’s location and who’s not.' 

When a fewer brazen neighbors decided to travel the drones, they discovered a radical of men lasting successful a La Quinta Inn parking, who matched the statement of the burglars seen breaking into the homes. 

'There’s 5 of them who were hanging retired unneurotic and arsenic soon arsenic they noticed that they were being watched, they each took disconnected and ran successful antithetic directions,' the nonmigratory revealed. 

Valencia residents are present connected precocious alert for immoderate suspicious activities, with immoderate adjacent hiring information to support their homes. 

Locals besides judge the alleged pack is portion of the increasing inclination successful crime tourism, wherever overseas nations travel successful the US with the intent to perpetrate theft. 

Earlier this year, an Orange County mates had millions worthy of jewelry stolen from a hidden harmless by overseas thieves. 

Carol and Jeff Starr had locked distant their wedding rings, arsenic good arsenic highly invaluable heirlooms passed down from Carol's precocious mother, successful a six-foot-tall safe.

'They deed the jackpot,' Carol told CNN in April. 

'My parent loved beauteous things and she wanted to permission a bequest done jewelry,' Carol Starr said. 'She bought immoderate beauteous antique jewelry, museum-quality jewelry.'

Prosecutors assertion that the set of robbers hid successful the hillside adjoining the Starr's home, watched them permission the location with visitors and proceeded with the robbery.

'They came implicit our fence, they broke done a model successful the precocious chamber and came done that window,' Jeff Starr told CNN. 'And past instantly started moving … connected the safe.'

The Starrs told CNN they judge they person mislaid astir $8 cardinal successful valuables.

'You don't consciousness harmless successful your ain location anymore,' said Carol. 'I get truthful affectional and truthful huffy erstwhile I deliberation astir what could person happened.'

The Los Angeles Police Department has launched a task unit earlier this twelvemonth to effort to ace down connected transgression voyeurism. 

Thieves from Chile, Ecuador, Colombia, and Peru people affluent neighborhoods successful places with lax transgression justness laws, similar California, to perpetrate crimes and bring their costly loots home. 

The troubling inclination of 'lanzas internacionales' - translated to 'international thieves' - goes backmost astatine slightest 2 years crossed the US and person deed California peculiarly hard. 

The FBI acceptable up its ain task unit to combat the thieves successful 2022. 

A 17-year-old Chilean nationalist was caught successful Arizona pursuing a bid of jewel heists crossed the California metropolis this year. 

The fishy and his 2 accomplices - 32-year-old Grecia Romanduski Gaete Castillo and 23-year-old Sebastian Jesus Parraguez Soto, each from Chile - were taken into custody, wherever they admitted to breaking into respective homes successful the region. 

The teen falsified Venezuelan recognition and continuously got distant from the LAPD by making excuses that his parents had near him unsocial successful the state with a person of the family.

He past disappeared aft helium was turned implicit to the kid and household services unit.

In different instance, Chilean Felipe Leiva Solis, 33, was apprehended aggregate times past twelvemonth aft being suspected of being portion of 'an organized burglary ringing liable for a minimum of 10 residential burglaries successful Glendale,' authorities said.

He was arrested alongside Abraham Pablo Herrera Montecino - AKA Juan Eduardo Salomon Castro - and Francisco Alegria Velasquez, 2 much members of the alleged crew.

One detective with the LAPD said successful a tribunal declaration that Leiva Solis was portion of a unit linked to implicit 30 thefts successful the West Los Angeles country alone, and saying helium utilized a fake passport to unfastened an relationship with Bank of America to ligament $23,000 home.

Three different members of the alleged unit were recovered with implicit $1million successful stolen apparel from a azygous burglary connected December 27 successful Beverly Hills.

But the occupation is solely successful California, arsenic NFL stars Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelce's homes were precocious hit.  

Both Kelce and his Kansas City Chiefs teammate Patrick Mahomes saw their luxury properties raided by thieves successful the abstraction of 24 hours, with an FBI probe starring cops to judge a South American transgression ringing is responsible.

While Patrick is said to person mislaid jerseys, medals, trophies, awards and more, Travis reportedly had $100,000 successful jewelry and his archetypal ever Super Bowl jersey taken from his location successful Leawood, Kansas.

According to Michigan vigor presumption WCSY, authorities person present recovered a ticker belonging to Kelce successful Providence, Rhode Island this week.

Police had not antecedently disclosed that a ticker was stolen from the Chiefs choky end's pad, though they did corroborate that $20,000 successful currency was taken.

Following the burglaries astatine Kelce and Mahomes' properties, the NFL sent a information alert to squad information directors and the players' national this week astir organized and skilled criminals that are targeting the homes of nonrecreational athletes.

The FBI is convinced that the thieves going aft sports stars are portion of a wider underworld organization, meaning players person been warned to instrumentality other precautions astatine their homes.