CINCINNATI (WXIX) – The indictment of three Chilean men reveals new details about the Dec. 9, 2024 burglary at Joe Burrow’s home.
It is now known, according to U.S. Attorney Kenneth Parker, that investigators found a trail camera of a man carrying luggage and walking through the wooded area behind the Anderson Township home.
The break-in occurred while Burrow and the Bengals were in Dallas for “Monday Night Football.”
Following the burglary, the suspects were tracked to multiple locations before their Jan. 10 arrest in Clark County, Ohio.
Sergio Andres Ortega Cabello deleted photos from a cell phone of the stolen goods and the victim’s home when Ohio State Highway Patrol pulled them over, Parker explained Wednesday.
One of the photos, which was taken in Florida, shows the suspects wearing Burrow’s iconic “9″ and “JB9″ necklaces.
This picture from the FBI Cincinnati Twitter shows four men possibly linked to a burglary at Joe Burrow’s house. One man has on a ‘9’ necklace. The other is ‘JB9′(FBI Cincinnati Twitter)
Joe Burrow postgame wearing a diamond “JB9” necklace.(wxix)
The other suspects indicted Wednesday include:
- Jordan Francisco Quiroga Sanchez, 22,
- Bastian Alejandro Orellana Morales, 23
Nearly $300,000 worth of designer luggage, glasses, wrist watches, and jewelry was stolen from Joe Burrow’s Anderson Township home on Dec. 9, 2024.(Provided by the FBI in court records)
Interstate transportation of stolen property is a federal crime punishable by up to 10 years in prison. Falsification of records in a federal investigation carries a potential penalty of up to 20 years in prison. The three men were previously charged locally and those state charges remain pending, according to a spokesperson for Parker’s office.
“South American Theft Groups have been a major concern in the Cincinnati area,” said FBI Special Agent in Charge Elena Iatarola.
Jan. 10 Traffic Stop
The men provided fake IDs and an arrest report says that after their real names were discovered, “all four males were identified as being illegally in the country or overstaying their permissions.”
OSHP searched the car the suspects were pulled over in and discovered “two Husky automatic center punch tools wrapped in a cloth towel,” a style of tool used by the South American Theft Group to enter homes, according to police.
Police also found “an old LSU shirt and Bengals hat, believed to be stolen from the December 9, 2024 burglary in Hamilton County, Ohio,” the court records read.
According to officers, when the suspects were taken to the Clark County Sheriff’s Office for questioning, a search warrant revealed that location data on Sanchez’s cell phone placed the device in the area of the Dec. 9 burglary and a Miami, Florida McDonald’s on Dec. 11, 2024.
Morales was previously identified as “a male possibly involved in a burglary offense on December 9, 2024, in Hamilton County, Ohio.”
“On December 11, 2024, Morales was seen by investigators on surveillance footage at a McDonald’s in Miami, Florida, exiting a white Volkswagen Atlas with Florida registration known to be in the area of the burglary on December 9, 2024,” the court records continue.
Three suspects told investigators they were in Ohio for a vacation to see the snow.
One suspect claimed he was visiting Ohio with the other Chileans and did not know their real names. Officers say he admitted to purchasing the Husky window punch tool at Home Depot but “would not give a reason on why he purchased the tool.”
The suspects were scheduled for arraignment Jan. 23 but that hearing could not proceed because there was no interpreter.
Bond was set at $250,000 each.
Joe Burrow December 2024 home break-in
The sheriff’s office confirmed the break-in happened a little after 8 p.m. on Dec. 9, 2024.
Olivia Ponton, a model and social media influencer, found a shattered bedroom window and the room “ransacked,” according to an incident report from the Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office.
The incident report shows that she called her mother, Diane Ponton, who called 911.
Hamilton County dispatchers took the call from the mother, who reported Olivia Ponton was at the quarterback’s home when the break-in occurred, according to a recording of the call released to FOX19 NOW.
“Someone is trying to break into the house right now,” Diane Ponton said on the recorded call. “My daughter is there. This is Joe Burrow’s house. She is staying there; He is at the football game.”
She also reported that her daughter had told her that “someone was in the house.”
Olivia Ponton was identified on the incident report as an employee of Burrow’s.
Three men charged in Joe Burrow’s home burglary facing federal charges
The Hamilton County dispatcher told the caller that an officer was already working security at Burrow’s home when the break-in was reported to 911.
When deputies arrived and looked around the home, an officer said the suspects were no longer there. Deputies talked with neighbors to obtain surveillance video of the possible suspects.
The NFL issued a security memo about home burglaries after the residences of Kansas City Chiefs players Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelce were broken into, the Associated Press reported in November.
According to the AP, the memo stated that professional athletes’ homes were being “increasingly targeted for burglaries by organized and skilled groups. ”
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