{"id":57376,"date":"2024-08-28T20:17:31","date_gmt":"2024-08-29T03:17:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=57376"},"modified":"2024-08-28T20:17:31","modified_gmt":"2024-08-29T03:17:31","slug":"man-and-six-others-allegedly-stole-5-million-through-a-crime-tourism-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=57376","title":{"rendered":"Man and Six Others Allegedly Stole $5 Million Through a &#8220;Crime Tourism Group.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"yiv0037783975MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\"><strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0LOS ANGELES<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3918 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Department-of-Justice-300x300.png\" alt=\"Two Men Arrested for Allegedly Operating One of the Largest Synthetic Drug Smuggling Rings\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Department-of-Justice-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Department-of-Justice-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Department-of-Justice.png 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>A 46-count indictment alleges that a man from Santa Clarita Valley facilitated a crime tourism group composed of South Americans and others, according to officials.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Law enforcement arrested six defendants who are accused of participating in burglaries, thefts, and various other crimes across the United States, laundering millions of dollars in illegal proceeds in the process.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">The indictment, which was returned on Aug. 1 and unsealed Wednesday, charges seven individuals with multiple felonies, including wire fraud, money laundering, conspiracy, and structuring transactions to evade federal financial reporting requirements.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Crime tourism theft groups typically consist of individuals, often from outside the United States, particularly from South America and other regions, who engage in widespread criminal activities across the country. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">These groups are known for entering the U.S. to carry out coordinated theft sprees.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">The stolen property was frequently distributed among facilitators and co-conspirators who aided the crime tourists in carrying out their crimes, as well as others both within and outside the United States.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv0037783975MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1611 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/FBI-Logo-300x209.jpg\" alt=\"La Cosa Nostra Convicted Felon Admits to Drug, Prostitution and Weapons Charges\" width=\"300\" height=\"209\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/FBI-Logo-300x209.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/FBI-Logo.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>&#8220;<span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Today, we dismantled a non-traditional facilitator of organized crime, and now we have a blueprint for future investigations,\u201d said Akil Davis, the Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI\u2019s Los Angeles Field Office.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv0037783975MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">\u201cThis investigation required years of hard work and dedication on behalf of the Los Angeles Police Department and our partners,\u201d said LAPD Chief, Dominic Choi.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"flex max-w-full flex-col flex-grow\">\n<div class=\"min-h-[20px] text-message flex w-full flex-col items-end gap-2 break-words [.text-message+&amp;]:mt-5 overflow-x-auto whitespace-normal\" dir=\"auto\" data-message-author-role=\"assistant\" data-message-id=\"9097dc62-755e-4847-a949-ffc29c76ebc8\">\n<div class=\"flex w-full flex-col gap-1 empty:hidden first:pt-[3px]\">\n<div class=\"markdown prose w-full break-words dark:prose-invert dark\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">According to the indictment, Juan Carlos Thola-Duran, 57, also known as \u201cParcero,\u201d of Canyon Country, along with his live-in girlfriend, Ana Maria Arriagada, 41, also known as \u201cParcera,\u201d managed and operated Driver Power Rentals (DPR), a Van Nuys-based car rental and dealership business. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Arriagada was the registered owner of DPR.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-29089 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Los-Angeles-Police-Department-209x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"209\" height=\"300\" \/>From at least January 2018 to July 2024, Thola-Duran allegedly directed associates, often members of crime tourism theft groups from South America, to travel across the United States to commit various thefts. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">These crimes included shoplifting from stores, burglarizing homes and businesses, and stealing credit and debit cards from victims.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Thola-Duran, Arriagada, and DPR allegedly provided the thieves with vehicles for their criminal activities throughout the U.S. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">To maintain the appearance of legitimacy and protect their anonymity, they required the co-conspirators to use false identification when renting vehicles.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Thola-Duran and Arriagada are accused of instructing those who stole credit or debit cards to immediately use them at stores such as Target, Best Buy, and The Home Depot, purchasing electronics, gift cards, designer purses, and other luxury items before the cards could be frozen or canceled.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2775 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Ventura-County-Patch.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"248\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Ventura-County-Patch.jpg 250w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Ventura-County-Patch-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/>Thola-Duran then allegedly arranged for the stolen or fraudulently obtained goods to be delivered to associates at DPR or mailed to other co-conspirators, including defendant Miguel Angel Barajas, 57, of Northridge, or to a FedEx store in Sherman Oaks. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Under Thola-Duran\u2019s direction, Barajas, John Carlo Thola, 33, of Canoga Park, and others would retrieve the parcels and deliver them to Thola-Duran and other conspirators. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Thola-Duran would then act as a &#8220;fence,&#8221; purchasing the stolen goods at a fraction of their retail value and paying the thieves a percentage. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">He is alleged to have sold the stolen goods to other buyers, generating approximately $5.5 million over the course of the conspiracy, including $5.1 million funneled into various bank accounts controlled by the co-conspirators.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-6772 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Ventura-County-District-Attorney.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"264\" height=\"264\" \/>The defendants are further accused of using their illicit profits to purchase and maintain assets, such as real estate and horses while structuring cash withdrawals to avoid triggering federal reporting requirements for transactions exceeding $10,000.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">The indictment also alleges that Thola-Duran, Arriagada, and others conspired between May 2020 and June 2021 to fraudulently obtain $274,998 in COVID-19 business relief loans.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\">&#8220;Since 2019, we have arrested over 130 suspects responsible for perpetrating these crimes, with the vast majority using cars supplied by Driver Power Rentals,\u201d said Ventura County Sheriff James Fryhoff. \u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\">Our efforts aren\u2019t stopping there. We formally partnered with the FBI, creating the Ventura County Major Theft Task Force. This task force has been instrumental in pursuing federal charges against Thola-Duran and other members of his criminal organization.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"yiv0037783975MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">\u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Driver Power Rentals provided cars that were allegedly used to take high-end merchandise and jewelry from Ventura County homeowners,\u201d said Ventura County District Attorney Erik Nasarenko. \u201cTaking down a key operator who fueled crime tourism is essential to neighborhood safety, and I am grateful to U.S. Attorney (Martin) Estrada and his team for aggressively prosecuting this network.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv0037783975MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-30975 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Orange-County-DA-e1548477394964-300x189.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"189\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Orange-County-DA-e1548477394964-300x189.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Orange-County-DA-e1548477394964-768x483.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Orange-County-DA-e1548477394964.jpg 956w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\u201cThese criminals were running a burglary operation with a sophistication that rivals Amazon, and instead of dispatching delivery drivers, they were dispatching trained thieves throughout Southern California to steal from what should be where we are safest \u2013 our homes,\u201d said Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer. \u201cCrime doesn\u2019t pay in Orange County and individuals who engage in crime tourism are on notice that my office will work with our local and federal partners to continue demanding accountability and bringing those who victimize our community to justice.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv0037783975MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\">All defendants are presumed innocent unless proven guilty.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv0037783975MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\">If convicted, the defendants would face a statutory maximum sentence of 20 years in federal prison for each wire fraud- and money laundering-related count, up to 10 years in federal prison for each structuring count, and up to five years in federal prison for the conspiracy to transport stolen property interstate count.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv0037783975MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\">The FBI, the Los Angeles Police Department, the Ventura County Sheriff\u2019s Office, the Ventura County District Attorney\u2019s Office, and the Orange County District Attorney\u2019s Office are investigating this matter.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv0037783975MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\">Assistant United States Attorneys Jennifer Chou and Lindsay M. Bailey of the Violent and Organized Crime Section and Assistant United States Attorney Ryan J. Waters of the Asset Forfeiture and Recovery Section are prosecuting this case.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0LOS ANGELES A 46-count indictment alleges that a man from Santa Clarita Valley facilitated a crime tourism group composed of South Americans and others, according to officials. 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