Home invasions have suspected connection to FBI-investigated national theft ring

By GPN Staff on February 11, 2021

Laurel Kraus and Kate Vanderstelt

GROSSE POINTE PARK AND SHORES — Though the investigation is still ongoing, Grosse Pointe Park detectives suspect the Feb. 1 invasions of one home in the Park and one in the Shores could be related to a South American organized crime crew based in Los Angeles, according to a weekly public safety report.

The suspects first forced entry into the Windmill Pointe house through a rear glass door sometime before 7:30 p.m. Monday, Feb. 1, and searched bedrooms for jewelry and cash. Shortly after, at approximately 8 p.m., the suspects set off an alarm at a house in the 900 block of Lakeshore, where they had entered through the rear of the residence and ransacked a bedroom.

Neither residence’s owners were home at the time of break-in.

Shores officers arrived on the scene of the second break-in shortly after three suspects fled and were able to follow several sets of footprints in the snow that proceeded south on the breakwall and out onto Lakeshore, where they ended. A secondary track by the Grosse Pointe Farms K-9 unit confirmed the same results, which led officers to believe the three suspects may have been picked up by a fourth suspect in a vehicle.

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Park Detective Sgt. Mike Narduzzi said they were able to confirm the driver of the vehicle is a citizen of Chile who illegally entered the country.

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