Crime & Safety

3 Nassau Homes Ransacked; Jewelry, $250K Stolen Last Year: Police

A joint investigation led to arrests in New Jersey earlier this month.

OLD WESTBURY, NY — Three men were arrested for burglaries in Muttontown and Old Westbury last November and December, police said.

An investigation conducted by Nassau police in conjunction with U.S. Customs and Border Patrol and US Immigration and Custom Enforcement led to the arrests of David Fernando Moreno Hernandez and Ivan Stewar Ramierez-Villalobos in Newark, New Jersey and were taken into custody, police said.

According to detectives, they entered each home by breaking rear windows and sliding glass doors when they were unoccupied in the evening. Once inside, they ransacked multiple bedrooms, stealing jewelry, designer handbags, safes, and family heirlooms and more than $250,000 in cash, police said.

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Moreno Hernandez and Ramierez-Villalobos were located on Feb. 14 by the Nassau police and the U.S. Marshals NY/NJ Fugitive Task Force.

A third man, Juan Pablo Orjuela-Saavedra, was located in East Orange, New Jersey, police said.

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Moreno Hernandez, 26, of Newark, is being charged with four counts of second-degree burglary.
Orjuela-Saavedra, 23, of East Orange, is charged with second-degree burglary. Ramirez-Villalobos, 25, of Newark, is being charged with four counts of second-degree burglary, police said.

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