Seven defendants for burglary that targeted NFL and NBA players

Seven men were charged with the preparation of burglary who targeted professional athletes across the United States.

Goods worth more than $ 2 million (£ 1.58m) was stolen from NBA homes and NFL players in a series of breakthroughs that began in October 2024. Years.

Kansas City Chiefs Stars Travis Kelce and Patrick Mahomes were among those targeted as they competed in the games at the end of last year, as well as players from Milvaukee Bucks and Cincinnati Bengals.

According to the Federal Complaint, which is unnecessary on Tuesday, all seven men accused of chilean citizens. This states that the members of the South American group of theft in South America who targeted a highly proclamative athletes.

The complaint is called a man like Pablo Zuniga Cartes, Ignacio Zuniga Cartes, Bastian Jimenez Freraut, Jordan Kuiroga Sanchez, Bastian Orellano Morales, Alexander Huiaguil Chavez and Sergio Ortega Cabello.

The group, which is aged between 23 and 38, is all faced at a maximum of 10 years in prison if it was convicted of burglary.

It is not clear yet if they have legal representation. Four of the Accused – Mr. Cabello, G. Chavez, G. Morales and Mr. Sanchez – said they were not guilty of the initial accusations in Ohio last month.

While the federal complaint is not appointed by victims, said that homes in the city houses in Kansas were broken in October.

Kelch’s home was robbed 7. October as he began the game against new sancs in Orleans. Officials said that $ 20,000 (15,900 pounds) were stolen from his house of 6 million dollars.

And Mahomes’s residence was burglary 5. October, at the time the police said.

The complaint also states that seven men are involved in November burglaries of houses belonging to Milvaukee’s basketball player. The date of this incident is when Bobby Portis reported the burglary.

Safe watches with watches, chains, jewelry and cash stolen. In total, the stolen items were worth more than 1.5 million dollars.

Athletes partly make easy goals because they have valuable things and a public schedule, Professional security experts told BBC last year.

“In any professional football event, for example, there are 106 players, 53 on each team, which will not be at home, not including coaches. And some of these players can have very lucrative contracts,” formerly said FBI Agent Jeff Lanza.

NFL warned players about crimesSending a note last year who said “organized and qualified groups” to target them. The note announced that the groups are accompanying where they were in social media and public records.