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08-03-2007, 11:33 AM #1
Illegal alien thief recruits day workers for burgularies
Newsday.com
Convict sought in burglaries
Police say deported Colombian native with a long rap sheet is back in the area, hiring others to help in thefts
BY LAURA ALBANESE
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/crime ... 5142.story
laura.albanese@newsday.com
August 1, 2007
Nassau police are scouring the Island to find a man they say was involved in about 20 burglaries in the county in the past three or four months and several more in Suffolk County, Queens and as far south as Atlanta and Florida.
Police say Pablo Castro, a convicted thief, recruited day workers from Astoria to carry out daytime burglaries, many in the New Hyde Park and Manhasset areas, said Det. Lt. Raymond Cote, commander of Nassau's Third Squad.
Castro and his accomplices are responsible for "hundreds of thousands of dollars" worth of stolen property, Cote said, and have used stolen credit cards to forge aliases and elude police.
Castro, 36, was deported to his native Colombia in 2005 after being jailed for grand larceny in 2002 and escaping from Moriah Correctional Facility upstate a year later. He was caught the next day.
He returned to the United States around March and obtained a fake Colombian passport using the name James Vitoria Jiminez, authorities said.
He and three friends, Monica Guerrero, 32, of Hollywood, Fla.; Juan Medina, 21, of West Palm Beach, Fla.; and Anthony Escobar, 18, of Rhode Island, stole from rooms at the Plainview Holiday Inn, police said.
Medina and Escobar were caught after a botched burglary in Dix Hills. Police traced them back to the hotel, where they found stolen property and a photo in a stolen digital camera of Castro standing in front of the loot. Guerrero was arrested at the hotel days later.
Castro, who police said was nonconfrontational and burglarized homes he thought to be empty, was again identified on June 13, when he approached a house on Old Court House Road in Manhasset Hills and repeatedly rang the doorbell, police said. A teenaged girl inside, whom police did not identify, didn't recognize Castro and didn't open the door. Castro entered through the back door and fled when the girl saw him and screamed, police said.
Police have surveillance footage of Castro and another accomplice - a man with a deformed right arm identified as Menito - filling out credit applications at Roosevelt Field Mall with stolen identities from the burglaries.
Police are asking anyone with information to contact Crime Stoppers at 1-800-244-TIPS. All calls will be kept confidential.
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08-03-2007, 11:36 AM #2
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Ex-Con Sought for L.I. Burglaries
MINEOLA, NY (AP) -- An ex-con who sneaked back into the U.S. after being deported recruited day laborers to burglarize more than
20 homes on Long Island, Queens and as far away as Atlanta and Florida, police said.
Pablo Castro, 36, was being sought in connection with burglaries in the Long Island ocmmunities of North Hyde Park and Manhasset Hills, said Nassau County police Detective Lt. Raymond Cote at a news conference Tuesday.
Castro picked his accomplices by going to a site in the Astoria section of Queens, where he would recruit day laborers to help him commit burglaries, Cote said.
Castro recently returned to the U.S. after he was deported to his native Colombia in 2005 following a daylong escape from Moriah Correctional Facility, where he had been imprisoned for grand larceny in 2002.
Investigators were tipped off that Castro was back in the country after three men were arrested for stealing from a hotel's rooms, police said. They told detectives they were staying with Castro at the Plainview Holiday Inn.
Upon a search of a room there, they found an estimated $100,000 in stolen property and a photo saved on a stolen digital camera of Castro posing in front of the loot, police said.
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08-03-2007, 11:39 AM #3
Longtime thug sought in big burglary ring
BY RICHARD WEIR
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Wednesday, August 1st 2007, 4:00 AM
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An ex-con who sneaked back into the U.S. after being deported is being hunted for heading a burglary ring that hit at least 20 homes on Long Island and possibly "hundreds" more in the metropolitan area.
Nassau County Police Detective Lt. Raymond Cote said Pablo Castro, 36, is wanted for orchestrating "upward of 20 burglaries" in North New Hyde Park and Manhasset Hills, two affluent communities in Nassau County.
Cote said the ex-con trolls hiring sites for day laborers in Astoria, Queens, to recruit thieves, who allegedly have struck in Queens, Staten Island and New Jersey.
Castro - charged with 51 felonies in nearly half a dozen arrests dating to 1990 - was sent to an upstate prison in February 2002. He escaped six months later, but was recaptured the next day and was later deported to Colombia. Cops said he recently sneaked back into the U.S.
Cote said cops got a lead on Castro when Suffolk County police nabbed two of his alleged recruits in a recent Dix Hills burglary. They told detectives they had been staying with Castro at a Holiday Inn in Plainview.
Cops raided the hotel room and found it "jam-packed with stolen goods," Cote said.
Anyone with information is asked to call the Nassau County Police Crime Stoppers hotline at (800) 244-TIPS.
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08-03-2007, 11:39 AM #4
Gosh the United States Government is screwed up. We need to clean house in 2008. This is just sickening.
<div>''Life's tough......it's even tougher if you're stupid.''
-- John Wayne</div>
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08-03-2007, 11:43 AM #5
Police hunt for alleged burglary ring leader
Group accused of robbing 20 homes throughout Long Island
Eyewitness News
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The search is on for the alleged leader of a burglary ring on Long Island.
He's accused of recruiting landscapers and day laborers to help do his dirty work. The group is accused of robbing up to 20 homes in Manhasset Hills.
Long Island reporter Emily Smith has the story:
One of the most wanted men in Nassau County is seen on surveillance video wearing a light blue shirt and black satchel in an undisclosed store in the Roosevelt Field Mall. Cops tell us Pablo Castro was filling out an application for a credit card using stolen ID's from people on Long Island.
"When we put a flag on a credit card and find out it's been used and then ask for surveillance video we compare that to our records and images," said Nassau County Det. Lt. Ray Cote.
And in a countless number of cases Pablo Castro comes up as a match.
So far, cops say they have some of his accomplices -- including the woman seen on camera behind the man in blue stripes putting shoes on the counter.
Through other arrests, police say they caught up with her in a Suffolk County Holiday Inn with a picture of Castro, taken with a stolen camera and jewlery -- hundreds of thousands of dollars worth in her hotel room.
As recent as this week police believe Castro's been rounding up a new pack of day laborers to help burglarize high-end homes in Manhasset Hills and New Hyde Park.
In June, cops say Castro himself broke into a home on Old Court House Road but didn't take a thing since police say a teenage girl was right there when he climbed in a back window.
"She screamed ... he ran ... and later he was identified ... as Pablo Castro and we are actively seeking his arrest," Cote said.
Authorities say if you have any tips, you're asked to call 1-800-244-TIPS.
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08-03-2007, 11:46 AM #6
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Castro picked his accomplices by going to a site in the Astoria section of Queens, where he would recruit day laborers to help him commit burglaries, Cote said.
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08-03-2007, 11:46 AM #7
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08-03-2007, 11:47 AM #8
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08-03-2007, 11:52 AM #9Originally Posted by zeezilOur country's founders cherished liberty, not democracy.
-Ron Paul
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08-03-2007, 11:56 AM #10
Nope the story wasn't spun... Good but there pigs anyway!
Our country's founders cherished liberty, not democracy.
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