{"id":782193,"date":"2026-05-08T15:18:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T15:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/782193\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T15:18:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T15:18:15","slug":"suspect-caught-in-san-fernando-valley-tied-to-rash-of-break-ins-south-american-theft-ring-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/782193\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspect caught in San Fernando Valley tied to rash of break-ins, South American theft ring, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A serial burglar was arrested in Beverlywood and connected to about 25 other burglaries in Los Angeles, according to police. <\/p>\n<p>On Monday, the Los Angeles Police Department responded to a report of a burglary in the 1500 block of Rexford Drive, according to a police department news release. The resident heard a loud bang on his glass sliding door and saw on his security camera that a man had entered his home.<\/p>\n<p>The resident locked himself in the bathroom and called 911, according to police. <\/p>\n<p>Officers arrived to find the front door open and found a man wearing a black hoodie and pants inside the home, police said. The man fled the scene but officers were able to locate him and take him into custody. <\/p>\n<p>Kevin Diaz, 22, was arrested and allegedly belongs to a South American theft group, police said. He is believed to have been connected to<a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2026-04-19\/san-fernando-valley-burglary-spree-new-homes-targeted\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> 25 other burglaries<\/a> throughout Los Angeles, including 14 in the San Fernando Valley.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A serial burglar was arrested in Beverlywood and connected to about 25 other burglaries in Los Angeles, according&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":782194,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5123],"tags":[84263,48490,1582,276,6290,316,2961,224,2444,5337,253824,2089,4531,320073,7207,116153,11449,39410,320072,7238],"class_list":["post-782193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-black-hoodie","tag-break-in","tag-ca","tag-california","tag-door","tag-home","tag-la","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-times","tag-losangeles","tag-loud-bang","tag-man","tag-officer","tag-other-burglary","tag-police","tag-rash","tag-resident","tag-san-fernando-valley","tag-south-american-theft-ring","tag-suspect"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116539628571166803","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=782193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782193\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/782194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=782193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=782193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=782193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}