NEW YORK — The men accused of breaking into and burglarizing Joe Burrow's home while he was away in Dallas for an NFL game stole nearly $300,000 worth of items from the quarterback's house, according to federal court documents filed Monday.
A federal criminal complaint filed in the case says "investigators discovered that nearly $300,000 worth of designer luggage, glasses, wrist watches and jewelry had been stolen from the residence."
Investigators discovered this after a woman, dropped off at Burrow's house shortly after 8 p.m. on December 9, called 911. Federal court documents say when the woman arrived at the home, she noticed the living room and master bedroom looked unusually messy. She then noticed a window on the back side of the home was broken; that window faced a wooded area, court documents say.
Investigators write in the documents they believe the burglary happened between around 6 p.m. and 8:15 p.m. that night; while security officers were stationed at the home while Burrow was out of town, documents say there was a shift change for that detail at around 6 p.m.
When that shift change happened, security officers walked around the perimeter and did not note any broken windows.
"After 6 p.m. and during the likely time of the burglary, the security detail was positioned in the driveway at the front of the residence," reads the court documents. "Due to these factors, it is believed that the burglars entered the property from the woods located to the southwest of the house, which would have been out of sight of the security detail. They then forced entry through the bedroom window at the rear of the house."
Investigators then obtained footage from a trail camera that showed a person walking through that wooded area, carrying what appeared to be a piece of luggage, the documents say.
Two men are charged with running a fencing operation for South American groups that burglarized high-profile athletes, including Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow.
John J. Durham, the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, said in a release Dimitriy Nezhinskiy and Juan Villar were indicted Tuesday after officials said they spent nearly five years selling "stolen luxury items" at their pawn shop in Manhattan's Diamond District after purchasing them from burglary crews.
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The release says the two received and purchased jewelry, handbags and other items stolen outside the state of New York, serving as "fences" for crews out of South America who traveled the U.S. to burglarize wealthy neighborhoods or jewelry vendors. The U.S. Attorney's Office specifically notes phone records and video surveillance link Nezhinskiy with two members of a "four-man burglary crew" believed to be involved in the "Dec. 9, 2024 burglary of a high-profile athlete in Ohio."
Four Chilean men were arrested in January in connection to a burglary in Hamilton County on Dec. 9, the same day Burrow's Anderson Township home was broken into.
An affidavit says an Ohio State Highway Patrol trooper on Jan. 10 pulled over a car with Florida tags that committed a lane violation on I-70 after investigators had been conducting surveillance on the occupants. Inside the car, per the affidavit and body camera footage, was an old LSU t-shirt and Bengals hat believed to have been stolen in a Hamilton County burglary on Dec. 9.
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All four of the men inside — later identified as 22-year-old Jordan Sanchez, 23-year-old Bastian Morales, 38-year-old Sergio Cabello and 24-year-old Alexander Huaiquil-Chavez — were indicted for engaging in a pattern of corrupt activity, participating in a criminal gang and possessing criminal tools.
During a search of Nezhinskiy and Villar's business, law enforcement found dozens of watches and jewelry believed to have been stolen. Inside Nezhinskiy's storage units, officials also found high-end bags, sports memorabilia and power tools used to burglarize or open safes.
During a search of cell phones found on Morales, Cabello and Sanchez at the time of their arrest, investigators found photos of jewelry "confirmed to be stolen from J.B.'s residence in December of 2024," reads the court document. Forensic investigators also found several other photos, deleted during the OSHP traffic stop, that depicted "the rear of J.B.'s residence," court documents say.

Federal court documents say the burglary at Burrow's home "is consistent with burglaries executed by South American Theft Groups (SATG)." The modus operandi in those cases, federal investigators wrote, involves targeting high-end houses that back up to green spaces, walking trails, golf courses or other undeveloped land that can be used to conceal the suspects' approach to a home.
In those burglaries, court documents say suspects predominantly steal jewelry and designer accessories, while leaving behind other valuable items.
"Many of these cases share similar fact patterns to the burglary described above," reads the court document.