A statewide grand jury indicted 5 in connection to an alleged auto theft/burglary ring -- stealing 23 vehicles worth about $836,000 -- that operated in the Denver metro and into Clear Creek County.
The five defendants are accused of working in concert “to steal motor vehicles and burglarize storage units to steal their contents, including personal identifying and financial information, among other offenses,” according to aAccording to the 90-count indictment, the defendants used stolen identities to test drive vehicles from car dealerships, and then never returned the vehicles.
Stolen property was sometimes pawned and investigators recovered stolen property, stolen or fake identities, and stolen firearms from recovered stolen vehicles, as well as storage units, as part of the investigation.The crimes happened between December 2019 and March 2021, according to the release. The value of 23 stolen vehicles — 22 from car dealers and one privately owned — is about $836,000, while the value of the stolen property from storage units and stolen checks is about $109,000.
The indictment includes various felony criminal charges including violating Colorado’s Organized Crime Control Act, first-degree aggravated motor vehicle theft, second-degree burglary, identity theft, forgery, criminal impersonation, and felony theft; as well as felony drug possession and possession of a weapon by a previous offender.
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