Suspicious in court in 1 million USD Watch robbery, the criminal crew had Christopher Dorner's weapon

Federal probe combines violent crime ring with the stolen weapon of LAPD fugitives

On Tuesday, a suspect of his role in an armed robbery in a hotel in Beverly Hills owes an incident, an incident that was bound by a gun with a robbery team who was once registered with the notorious police officer of Los Angeles, who had become of Christopher Dorner.

Jamer Mauricio Sepulveda Salazar, 22, a Colombian citizen, admitted to a number of interventions with the trade by robbery according to the Hobbs Act in front of a federal court. His plea reveals a coordinated criminal operation that aims at high-end watches and wealthy victims in one of the only most exclusive quarter of the country. Sepulveda has been in federal custody since August 2024.

Court files show that Sepulveda acted as an escape driver during a robbery on August 7, 2024 in the BLVD, a luxury restaurant in the Beverly Wilshire Hotel. Two non -identified accomplices allegedly had a victim, which was only identified as “TA”, with a weapon on the terrace of the restaurant and steel his Patek Philippe Nautilus -Armbandwatch -with about 1 million US dollars.

The prosecutors say that Sepulveda and his co -accused Jesus Eduardo Bryan Padron Rojas, 20, an undocumented migrant from Venezuela, had spoken to the conspirators two days before the attack on TA, according to reports, said a value of 1.3 million US dollars before performing the crime.

In a disturbing phrase, court documents are also described how the crew happened to come across another victim in Beverly Hills with a Rolex of $ 30,000 and robbed it without hesitation with a weapon.

The authorities found the most alarming that the crew had access to several firearms during their robbery, while in an Airbnb-proof house they lived in a pistol of the caliber caliber glock, which was loaded with 12 round ammunition. This weapon was once registered with Christopher Dorner, a former LAPD officer, who started a stroll against revenge against law enforcement agencies before he died in a fiery patient situation with the authorities in 2013.

It remains unclear how the weapon gets its way into the hands of this robbery and raises serious questions about how criminals continue to access high -performance weapons with connections to previous violent crimes.

Sepulveda is now seen in a maximum prison sentence of 20 years in the federal prison when he appears on July 14th in front of the US district judge Otis D. Wright II.

Federal and local authorities, including investigations for home protection, the police authority of Beverly Hills and the police department of Blythe, have examined the case that reveals the ongoing weaknesses in the police work of top-class criminal operations that infiltrate the elite district.

Assistant US lawyers Jena A. Maccabe and Kevin J. Butler from the Department of Violent and Organized Crime pursue the case.