A trifecta of individuals, two hailing from Colombia and one without a disclosed origin, are currently the focus of an interstate burglary investigation that has them facing an array of charges in Batavia Township, Ohio, as reported by FOX19. Dominick Luna, 32, Wilver Manyona-Mejia, 42, and Alex Cordoba-Augulo, 32, have been indicted on charges which include engaging in a pattern of corrupt activity, burglary, theft of a firearm, and safecracking, following their allegedly burglarizing homes in multiple states, including Ohio and Wisconsin.
These coordinated thefts were first brought to light after deputies responded to a call at around 11:15 p.m. on October 19, 2024, in the 1200 block of Glenwood Court, where personal items including cash and other valuables were reported missing and eventual scrutiny of surveillance led to the spotting of masked individuals abetted by a rented vehicle from Detroit, surveillance from a nearby business also provided clues to the investigation their appearances hidden by masks and gloves such a revelation linking them to similar criminal exchanges in the nearby Springboro, according to WLWT.
The Clermont County Sheriff's Office, corroborating the accounts, has maintained that Manyona-Mejia was previously expelled from the US in both 2013 and 2017, with no clear record of his re-entry into the country, triggering an alert from Immigration and Customs Enforcement who have since placed a detainer on him, while Cordoba-Augulo legally resides in the US on a work visa that is valid through November 2032, though he is currently avoiding capture as per information obtained by Local 12.
Meanwhile, Luna and Manyoma-Mejia are being detained in a Wisconsin jail pending extradition to Clermont County to stand trial, their arrest in the Badger State connected to another burglary where they were found with a substantial sum of cash and jewelry which totalled nearly the haul of a massive $800,000 heist as their modus operandi draws parallels to a pattern of transnational gangs targeting wealthy dwellings and Asian American-owned businesses across the Midwest, an operational thread connecting dots across locales and jurisdictions. "What evidence do you have, and where do they meet in the middle? Because we might only have a chunk of the apple, but Ohio has another chunk of the apple. We start putting those chunks back together, and that helps us see the broader picture and really helps us track down what we're trying to find," explained Sgt. Nick Soley, a police officer in Metro Detroit, elucidated on the collaborative effort needed in these expansive cases in a statement obtained by Local 12.
For those with any leads or information regarding Cordoba-Augulo's whereabouts, the sheriff’s office has urged the public to assist by calling 513-732-7510 or reaching out to the Clermont County Communications Center at 513-732-2231.
