Pro-athlete home burglaries may be linked to raid in New York City's Diamond District, sources say
The FBI and New York police raided a business in New York City's Diamond District on Tuesday that investigators say worked with a South American transnational theft group that has been targeting homes belonging to wealthy people across the country.
The FBI and New York police raided a business in New York City's Diamond District on Tuesday that investigators say worked with a South American transnational theft group that has been targeting homes belonging to wealthy people across the country.
Investigators said they are looking into whether any people involved in recent burglaries of numerous star athletes’ homes are connected to the alleged fencing location. A “fencing” operation involves the buying and selling of stolen goods.
A man was arrested Tuesday morning on West 47th Street near Sixth Avenue. Dozens of FBI agents and NYPD Major Case detectives searched the second-floor business. A second man was taken into custody later in the day, officials familiar with the case said.
Authorities outside a Diamond District store during an arrest in New York City.NBC New YorkLater Tuesday, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York announced that two men connected to the Manhattan business, described as a pawn shop, were arrested based on a federal grand jury indictment charging each with conspiracy to receive stolen property and receiving stolen property, according to a criminal complaint filed in U.S. District Court in Brooklyn.
The defendants were identified as Dimitriy Nezhinskiy and Juan Villar. It's not clear whether they have retained lawyers for the matter.
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