Luz Hernández Capera and Claudia Echavarría Osorio, residents of New York, were arrested as suspects of several robberies in Fairfax County, Virginia.
Apparently Hernández Capera (41) and Echavarría Osorio (53) were caught on camera robbing customers of a “Panera Bread” restaurant in Lorton a few weeks ago, reported Daily Voice.
In December, a customer reported to the Fairfax County Police Department that her wallet had been taken while she was eating at Panera Bread on Lorton Market Street and The stolen credit cards were immediately used at several locations in the area.
During the initial investigation, detectives were able to track down surveillance photographs and Later that day Herndon City Police reported a similar case. The second investigation led both departments to obtain a license plate number from the vehicle involved, which returned to Fairfax County over the January weekend, prompting a traffic stop on Route 66, where the two suspects were arrested.
They were charged with several counts of credit card theft and petit theft. Additional charges are pending as the department continues to work with other agencies on possible similar cases in Maryland, West Virginia, Connecticut, Ohio, Massachusetts and the entire east coast.
“Overall, in Fairfax County, this is uncommon. “We haven’t seen anything like this before,” said to Fox News the deputy commander of the local police, Elizabeth Meléndez, about the alleged organized group of pickpockets.
Both women were taken to the Fairfax County Adult Detention Center. All charges are mere accusations and those charged are presumed innocent until proven guilty in court.
In November, a trio of women robbed two taxi drivers at gunpoint just two hours apart in Midtown Manhattan and the Bronx.
Earlier that month, New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli reported that a Georgia resident had collected nearly $500,000 in pension and Social Security payments from her deceased mother-in-law over a period of 15 years.
In a similar case, a woman was arrested in The Bronx (NYC) for allegedly robbing the home of a dead man who had the same name as his also-deceased father, then selling the property and squandering the funds on jewelry and a luxury car.
In September, a woman was arrested on suspicion of using credit cards from the company she worked for to pay herself more than $350,000 over the course of two years on Long Island (NY).
In April 2023, a resident of The Bronx (NYC) was arrested at a bank in Connecticut on suspicion of trying to obtain a check worth $38,510.62 and another $5,000 in cash. using a stolen credit card.
2024-02-01 16:11:00
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