The second man accused in $ 500,000. George Watches Heist

Sf. George -an arrest warrant was issued on Tuesday for the second of the three men who are believed to be broken in a jewelry store St. George in July and stole watches worth $ 500,000.

Nicholas Benjamin Tudela-Rojas, 35 years old, was accused at the 5th Court of District of causing material damage and theft, second-degree crimes; Theft, a third -degree offense; material damage and using theft detection shields, class A crimes; and deterioration of a communication device, a class B.

On July 14, at the Regal Watch Exchange, located inside the Red Cliffs Mall, 1770 E. Red Cliffs Drive, the police say the surveillance video recorded three men entering the store until breaking a wall shared with a vacancy. Regal Watch was closed at that time.

“At the entrance to the rear camera of the Regal Watch Exchange, the three male suspects identify the security camera in the upper corner of the rear camera. One of the men, initially transporting a radio frequency locking device, climbed on a table And the camera was disconnected as another man was seen leaving the business sales area and snatching the security alarm panel on the wall, ”according to the documents of loading.

The group then opened a safe in a rear room and stole about $ 500,000 in high quality watches, according to investigators.

Using the DNA that was collected from the scene and introduced into a national database, the police identified Mario Munoz-Aliaga, 38, from Los Angeles, as one of the possible robberies. He was accused in January at the 5th Court district with material theft and damages, second-degree crimes; Theft, a third -degree offense; material damage and using theft detection shields, class A crimes; and deterioration of a communication device, a class B.

It was established that Munoz-Aliaga was under arrest in San Diego to investigate similar crimes. A mandate was issued for his arrest.

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The police have compared known images with Tudela-Rojas from Detectives in San Diego and identified as one of the three men in the case of Utah, according to judicial documents.