Some of them face sentences of 7 to 15 in prison, the Bronx attorney general’s office said in a statement.
New York, Sunday, October 3, 2021 ((rezonodwes.com)) – Nine Dominicans and an African-American arrested last Tuesday were indicted on Wednesday before the State Supreme Court of The Bronx in New York. They are accused of stealing more than 300 vehicles in Upper Manhattan (Washington Heights and Inwood).
To do this, NYPD reports, suspected criminals who used high-tech to open car doors using computers, changed serial numbers, and then sent most of the cars to the Dominican Republic.
The defendants are identified as Norberto Brito, José Lebrón Pimentel, Edwin Hidalgo Estévez, Dariberto Fernández Pérez, Héctor Rivera, Jesús Cabral, Willy Abreu Martínez, the African-American Abdul Khan, Carlos Valverde and Leticia Saldívar. Some of them face sentences of 15 to 7 years in prison, the state attorney general’s office, Letitia James, said in a statement.
One of them is still at large and is actively wanted by the authorities. The charges were laid in the Bronx State Supreme Court.
New York Police said the network has adopted new technology that allows it to digitally clone car key fobs to access vehicles without damaging them. The defendants changed the vehicle identification numbers and replaced the license plates with false paper copies before selling them on websites and in particular on Facebook.
