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发帖数: 133 | 1 A national crime ring targeting Asian households is still showing a "steady"
presence in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, according to Plano police.
"This is a large organization, we've made arrests, other agencies have made
arrests, and they just continue to come in," said Officer David Tilley,
Plano police spokesman.
In July of 2013, Plano authorities reported a spike in these targeted
burglaries in their city as well as in other places, like Irving, Carrollton
, and neighboring areas in Collin County.
Tilley said the problem is actually national and has been tracked down to a
group of criminals entering the country from Colombia, starting in Houston,
and then spreading their web throughout the United States.
The method of operation is consistent: the burglars ring a doorbell, perhaps
several times, to make sure no one is home.
If there is no answer, the group, usually men, enters the backyard through
an unlocked side gate, breaking into the home by kicking through a back door
or window.
The thieves are known to target Asian households specifically because of a
cultural tradition to pass down decades, even centuries-old gold jewelry and
heirlooms.
Traditional jewelry is usually 22 or 24 carat gold, and authorities believe
the metal is melted down nearly as soon as it is stolen.
While Plano police have made arrests, they estimate they’ve seen as many as
10 targeted burglaries happen since September 2013. In neighboring Allen,
police report four in the same time period.
"For every one person that we take off the streets, there's no way to
potentially measure how many other potential burglaries could have taken
place," Tilley said. "We look at it as basically small victories for us."
He warns that with warm weather, crime like home break-ins, tends to
increase.
It's a message Plano Realtor Jamuna Thill is trying to spread to her clients
, neighbors and community members.
"For us in our culture, jewelry is handed out, generations," Thill said.
Thill was a victim of jewelry thieves years ago.
"It was really hard to go back to my mom and say, I lost it. It took me
almost a year to let her know," she said. "This is really traumatic for
most people — to lose jewelry."
She said she’s telling her friends and clients not to make themselves an
easy target by wearing lots of jewelry in public or even displaying obvious
tokens in the yard that theirs is an Asian home.
Investigators have not figured out how the thieves choose their targets. | s*********y
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发帖数: 1348 | 3 的确是，前段时间irving好几家印度人被盗，损失挺大。 | c**s
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