NEWS RELEASE
OFFICE OF THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY
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Following an extensive investigation conducted by the Lafayette Police Department, the Colorado Bureau of Investigation, and the District Attorney’s Office, the District Attorney’s Office announced today the indictment of six (6) adults for violations of the Colorado Organized Crime Control Act (COCCA) for engaging in a pattern of racketeering activity as an enterprise. The investigation included the use of evidence obtained from search warrants for location data, social media, hotels, and phone records. The racketeering activity conducted by this enterprise included multiple Burglary, Theft, and Criminal Mischief offenses.
Members of the enterprise committed the crimes at 39 construction sites across the Denver Metro area. The construction sites were located in Monument, Aurora, Broomfield, Northglenn, Denver, Greeley, Fort Collins, Firestone, Arvada, Loveland, Brighton, Lafayette, Commerce City, Boulder County, Jefferson County, Larimer County, Douglas County and Larimer County.
This case will be prosecuted in Boulder County.
The six individuals indicted traveled from California to Colorado. On these trips to Colorado, the group would often scout construction sites during the day and then return to the construction sites to steal specialty tools and construction equipment. Over $1.1 million in property was stolen in the burglaries. Additionally, the individuals caused significant property damage at some of the construction sites, totaling over $27,000.
Law enforcement was first alerted to the Enterprise’s activities when two burglaries occurred at construction sites in the City of Lafayette on October 29, 2021. The Lafayette Police Department executed multiple search warrants and obtained data indicating members of the Enterprise were present at both burglary sites during the time frames of the burglaries. Additional data and records were then obtained connecting the involved individuals to similar construction site burglaries across Colorado. The indicted members of the criminal enterprise include: Carlos David Campos (DOB: 7/4/91), Samuel Armando Arevalo Aguilar (DOB: 11/26/91), Oscar Orlando Herrera (DOB: 11/29/64), Francisco Garcia Agueta (DOB: 3/13/98), Ricardo Antonio Quevedo Rios (DOB: 11/24/87), and Bayron Arturo Moreno Gomez (DOB: 3/3/99).
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