The man wanted entered the US on a forged passport from Columbia. He then hires illegal aliens from day laborer meeting points in Queens. They then go and rob homes in Manhasset Hills.
They've also used stolen IDs to open accounts and go on shopping sprees at Roosevelt Field shopping mall.
An ex-con who sneaked back into the U.S. after being deported recruited day laborers to burglarize more than 20 homes on Long Island, Queens and as far away as Atlanta and Florida, police said.Anyone who thinks that illegal aliens aren't a security threat have their head in the sand and Castro was already deported once. That wasn't sufficient to keep him from returning to cause yet more mayhem.
Pablo Castro, 36, was being sought in connection with burglaries in the Long Island ocmmunities of North Hyde Park and Manhasset Hills, said Nassau County police Detective Lt. Raymond Cote at a news conference Tuesday.
Castro picked his accomplices by going to a site in the Astoria section of Queens, where he would recruit day laborers to help him commit burglaries, Cote said.
Castro recently returned to the U.S. after he was deported to his native Colombia in 2005 following a daylong escape from Moriah Correctional Facility, where he had been imprisoned for grand larceny in 2002.
Investigators were tipped off that Castro was back in the country after three men were arrested for stealing from a hotel's rooms, police said. They told detectives they were staying with Castro at the Plainview Holiday Inn.
Upon a search of a room there, they found an estimated $100,000 in stolen property and a photo saved on a stolen digital camera of Castro posing in front of the loot, police said.
The inability to secure our borders has serious consequences.
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