BROWARD COUNTY, FL - Broward County detectives, alongside additional law enforcement partners, helped bust a group of “sophisticated” alleged burglars who reportedly stole in excess of $2 million over a six-month period across homes in Weston, Florida.
A press release from the Broward County Sheriff’s Office (BSO) from earlier in April announced the arrests of two suspects, 38-year-old Jose Elias Barrozo-Espinoza and 42-year-old Daniel Osorio-Valencia, over their alleged role in a string of residential burglaries that targeted affluent households in Weston’s Windmill Ranch community between August 2025 and January 2026.
According to the BSO, the two named suspects, as well as four others reportedly arrested on separate charges believed to be connected to the burglaries, are part of “a South American Theft Group, an organized criminal group that targets high-end homes using surveillance and technology to commit their crimes.”
According to the press release from the agency, the suspects use a variety of “technological equipment and common items used to facilitate the crimes,” such as Wi-Fi jammers, two-way radios, crude burglary tools like hammers and saws, and even inflatable rafts that were used to traverse canals to gain access to some of the properties within the gated community.
DNA evidence collected from a November burglary led to Barrozo-Espinoza as one of the suspects; he was arrested in March in Indiana while allegedly trying to commit another burglary. Barrozo-Espinoza has since been extradited back to Broward County to face the criminal charges in Florida.
As for Osorio-Valencia, he was apprehended by authorities in Broward County following a 911 call from a homeowner in Windmill Ranch who’d received an alert on his phone regarding his home being broken into on December 31, 2025. A second suspect allegedly involved in the December burglary remains at large, according to the BSO press release.
BSO detectives were assisted by law enforcement partners during the investigation, including officers and agents from the Weston Criminal Suppression Team, Homeland Security Investigations Miami, the FBI, the Coral Springs Police Department, and the Miami Police Department.
A press release from the Broward County Sheriff’s Office (BSO) from earlier in April announced the arrests of two suspects, 38-year-old Jose Elias Barrozo-Espinoza and 42-year-old Daniel Osorio-Valencia, over their alleged role in a string of residential burglaries that targeted affluent households in Weston’s Windmill Ranch community between August 2025 and January 2026.
According to the BSO, the two named suspects, as well as four others reportedly arrested on separate charges believed to be connected to the burglaries, are part of “a South American Theft Group, an organized criminal group that targets high-end homes using surveillance and technology to commit their crimes.”
According to the press release from the agency, the suspects use a variety of “technological equipment and common items used to facilitate the crimes,” such as Wi-Fi jammers, two-way radios, crude burglary tools like hammers and saws, and even inflatable rafts that were used to traverse canals to gain access to some of the properties within the gated community.
DNA evidence collected from a November burglary led to Barrozo-Espinoza as one of the suspects; he was arrested in March in Indiana while allegedly trying to commit another burglary. Barrozo-Espinoza has since been extradited back to Broward County to face the criminal charges in Florida.
As for Osorio-Valencia, he was apprehended by authorities in Broward County following a 911 call from a homeowner in Windmill Ranch who’d received an alert on his phone regarding his home being broken into on December 31, 2025. A second suspect allegedly involved in the December burglary remains at large, according to the BSO press release.
BSO detectives were assisted by law enforcement partners during the investigation, including officers and agents from the Weston Criminal Suppression Team, Homeland Security Investigations Miami, the FBI, the Coral Springs Police Department, and the Miami Police Department.
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