Overview

• The months-long probe began in March after Oak Brook, Illinois, police alerted Kenosha detectives to an HSI and ICE investigation into a cross-state theft ring.
• Investigators observed thefts on April 6 in Pleasant Prairie and detained several suspects during an April 10 traffic stop with more than $21,000 in items taken from a Madison retailer.
• Search warrants executed May 6 at a Kenosha apartment and a storage unit led to the recovery of over $120,000 in merchandise, about $53,000 of it still tagged.
• Fausto Gonzalez-Medrano, Manuel Perez-Sanchez, Yareli Salas-Ramirez, and Danna Paola Gomez posted bonds and were then detained by ICE and deported to Mexico, with fully extraditable warrants now issued.
• Jose Antonio Baez-Fuerte, Jorge Alberto Villeda-Sevilla, Sharon Jazmin Villeda-Sevilla, and Ana Paola Villeda-Sevilla remain in the Kenosha County Jail as authorities cite direct ties to La Familia Michoacana and highlight coordination with HSI offices and multiple Illinois and Texas agencies.