Chilean crooks using visa waiver program to enter US, rob homes: Long Island police

Article CAIRCO note: 
From article: they were in possession of false identification documents from Argentina.
Article author: 
Robert Gearty 
Article publisher: 
Fox News
Article date: 
7 March 2020
Article category: 
National News
Medium
Article Body: 

Long Island police say criminals from Chile are using a visa waiver program to enter the U.S. to burglarize affluent homes before flying back home.

Five members of one such Chilean burglary crew were charged Friday with breaking into 16 “Gold Coast” homes on the north shore of Long Island following their arrests a day earlier at a Bronx motel ...

At their court arraignment Friday, a prosecutor said the suspects admitted to arresting officers that their handler recruited them to burglarize New York homes and that the risk of jail was low because of the state’s new bail reform law, Newsday reported.

The law does away with bail for non-violent crimes ...

Ryder said they were in possession of false identification documents from Argentina ...