NE Valley Times

Three individuals have been apprehended in connection to a series of burglaries in north Scottsdale. The arrests took place over a span of several hours between Sunday night and Monday morning. Law enforcement deployed patrol officers, detectives, police drones, and helicopters in response to reports of suspicious activity in the area.

The first arrest involved a woman who was spotted by detectives driving a vehicle out of a neighborhood near Pima and Yearling Roads on Sunday evening. Following this, two men were apprehended in a desert area near Pima and Jomax Roads early Monday morning during a continued search conducted with the assistance of a police helicopter. None of the suspects were found to be armed at the time of their arrest.

The woman, identified as 32-year-old Grecia Romanduski Gaete Castillo from Chile, was taken into custody and booked into the Maricopa County Jail. One of the male suspects, a 17-year-old also from Santiago, Chile, was sent to a Maricopa County juvenile facility. The second man, identified as 23-year-old Sebastian Jesus Parraguez Soto, will be booked into the Maricopa County Jail later.

Authorities have indicated that they are actively investigating to determine if the arrested individuals are linked to other criminal incidents in Scottsdale. Moreover, the Scottsdale Police Department has scheduled an announcement regarding the arrests and will be providing updates and addressing media inquiries on their YouTube channel at 10 a.m. on Tuesday, March 12th.