2 guys charged of purchasing and offering deluxe things connected to break-ins by South American burglary teams

2 guys have actually been jailed for apparently purchasing taken deluxe things connected to break-ins throughout the nation and afterwards offering them from a pawn store in Manhattan’s Ruby Area, government district attorneys claimed Tuesday.

Dimitriy Nezhinskiy, 43, and Juan Villar, 48, are charged of running a secure fencing procedure for South American burglary teams declared to be behind a string of break-ins.

Nezhinskiy has actually been connected to component of the staff thought to have actually been associated with the robbery that took place at Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow’s home in 2015, according to district attorneys.

Both guys were jailed on Tuesday– Nezhinskiy in New Jacket and Villar in Manhattan– and have actually been billed by grand court charge with conspiracy theory to obtain taken residential or commercial property and invoice of taken residential or commercial property. Both result from show up in court for an accusation on Wednesday. Lawyer info was not instantly offered for either accused.

” As declared, the offenders produced an illegal market and sustained need for break-ins by South American Burglary Teams and various other teams around the nation by buying taken watches, precious jewelry and various other deluxe things, and afterwards marketing them in their New york city City shop,” united state Lawyer John Durham claimed in a declaration.

For virtually 5 years, Nezhinskiy and Villar apparently functioned as illegal brokers to market taken deluxe things by buying them from robbery teams based out of South America, according to district attorneys.

The taken residential or commercial property– consisting of precious jewelry, watches, bags and diverse deluxe things– had actually been swiped from homes beyond New york city and moved right into the state, district attorneys claimed.

According to court filings, phone documents and video clip monitoring connected Nezhinskiy to a minimum of 2 participants of a four-man robbery staff thought to be associated with the Dec. 9, 2024, robbery of Burrow. A participant of the staff touched with Nezhinskiy much less than a week before the compensation of robbery in Ohio, according to district attorneys.

As component of the government examination, a covert investigative carried out 7 regulated sales of supposed taken residential or commercial property, consisting of premium bags and deluxe devices, to Nezhinskiy or Villar, or both, at their organization area in the Ruby Area in between October 2022 and January 2024, district attorneys claimed. Throughout these regulated sales, the covert investigative supplied the offenders with things that the covert informed the offenders had actually been taken, and obtained money in exchange for the taken items, district attorneys claimed.

Throughout a search Tuesday at the guys’s pawn store on West 47th Road, authorities confiscated big amounts of believed taken residential or commercial property– consisting of lots of premium watches and precious jewelry– along with recouped big amounts of cash money and cannabis, district attorneys claimed.

All at once, police carried out a search warrant at storage space devices coming from Nezhinskiy in New Jacket where an added cache of believed taken residential or commercial property was discovered, district attorneys claimed. From within Nezhinskiy’s storage space devices, police recouped big amounts of deluxe items and apparel, consisting of “premium bags, white wine, sporting activities souvenirs, precious jewelry, art work and power devices constant with those typically made use of in break-ins and opening up safes,” district attorneys claimed in a press release.

If founded guilty of invoice of taken items, the offenders confront ten years behind bars, the DOJ claimed.

Their apprehension follows 4 Chilean nationals were jailed last month in a noticeable link with the robbery that took place at Burrow’s home in Anderson Town, Ohio, according to court documents.

An unique representative with the Ohio State Freeway Patrol detected questionable travel luggage being lugged right into a car beyond a resort in Fairborn, Ohio, on Jan. 10, according to court documents.

In the automobile, authorities discovered an “old LSU t shirt and Bengals hat thought to be taken from the December 9, 2024 robbery in Hamilton Area, Ohio,” according to the testimony.

ABC Information’ Luke Barr added to this record.