Three Columbian men were arrested for four residential burglaries that occurred in Muttontown and Old Westbury.
On November 29, 2024; December 13, 2024; and December 21, 2024, the defendants entered all the homes by breaking rear windows and sliding glass doors when these homes were unoccupied
during evening hours. While inside, they ransacked multiple bedrooms in each house, resulting in the theft of jewelry, diamonds, gold, designer handbags, safes, family heirlooms and over $250,00.00 in cash. An extensive investigation was conducted by the Nassau County Major Case Squad in conjunction with U.S. Customs and Border Patrol (CBP), U.S. Immigrations and Custom Enforcement (ICE), Enforcement Removal Operations (ERO), Muttontown Police and Old Westbury Police. The investigation included extensive surveillance conducted in the tri-state area for approximately two-and-a-half months which led to law enforcement locating and arresting the defendants.
On February 14 at 6:00 a.m., members of the Nassau County Major Case Squad and Electronics Squad, along with the U.S. Marshals NY/NJ Fugitive Task Force were conducting surveillance and located David Fernando Moreno Hernandez and Ivan Stewar Ramierez-Villalobos in Newark, New Jersey and were taken into custody.
Juan Pablo Orjuela-Saavedra was located by members of the U.S. Marshals NY/NJ Fugitive Task Force driving a vehicle on Hamilton Street in the vicinity of North Walnut Street in East Orange, New Jersey.
On February 27, Nassau County Detectives responded to the Essex County Correctional Facility in Newark, New Jersey. Hernandez and Orjuela-Saavedra were placed under arrest at 11:55 a.m. and were transported to the Third Precinct for processing.
Ramirez-Villalobos was already in custody on February 14, but was unable to be extradited because he is being held on a pending residential burglary that took place in Livingston, New Jersey in 2023.
Defendant Fernando Moreno Hernandez, 26, of 11-13 Thomas Street, Newark, New Jersey is being charged with four counts of second-degree burglary. Orjuela-Saavedra, 23, of 207 North Walnut Street, East Orange, New Jersey, is charged with second-degree burglary. Ramirez-Villalobos, 25, of 11-13 Thomas Steet, Newark, New Jersey, is being charged with four counts of second-degree burglary.