The gang would openly carry and brandish firearms to gain control of the victims and then immediately corral the victims, including children, into one location in the home
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The leader of the gang was Castro. She would make lists of robbery targets in various states around the county, specifically families of Asian and Indian ancestry, and then assign accomplices to carry out armed robberies of these families within their homes, the Department of Justice said. Once Castro assigned a crew to a particular area, members of the group would travel to that location, conduct surveillance and execute the robberies. Noting that the crews followed a particular mode of operation in each of the robberies, the Department of Justice said they took disguise with clothing and bandanas so that robbery victims would have difficulty in identifying them.
They would openly carry and brandish firearms to gain control of the victims and then immediately corral the victims, including children, into one location in the home. At least one robber would then restrain the victims with duct tape, as another would ransack the home in search of cash, jewellery and electronics to steal. The group organized their trips to involve multiple home invasion robberies over a series of days, the Justice Department said.
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