burglary

Flores pleaded no contest to grand theft this year and was sentenced to two years of probation in connection with a March burglary, court records show.

In downtown Los Angeles in June, police investigating a string of residential burglaries happened upon their suspects as they tried to make a daring escape.

Police said Friday that detectives investigating the burglary found that the Osefos had returned more than $20,000 of the “stolen” items to their points of purchase.

For some time now, officials have been warning about so-called “burglary tourism,” in which theft rings from South America have traveled to the United States to target homes in affluent neighborhoods.

L.A. officials announced the arrests of suspected members of a burglary crew that is alleged to have carried out nearly 100 break-ins across the city.