SANTA ANA, Calif. (Feb. 4, 2026): Orange County Sheriff investigators have arrested three suspects allegedly running an ATM distraction theft operation involving multiple counties and at least a dozen victims across the state of California.
North Operations investigators on Jan. 6 arrested three Romanian nationals on suspicion of multiple distraction thefts after a multi-week investigation. (Editor’s note – the suspects appear to be Roma. The Roma (also known as Romani) are an Indo-Aryan ethnic group with a global population of approximately 12 to 15 million. They are primarily concentrated in Europe, they constitute the continent’s largest ethnic minority.)
On Nov. 22, a 66-year-old victim reported his ATM card had been compromised at a bank in the 17000 block of Santiago Boulevard in the city of Villa Park…