AUSTIN, Texas — A person stays in Travis County Jail after allegedly stealing dozens of cellphones from concertgoers during the Austin City Limits Music Festival.
Victor Manuel Castro-Ordonez, 23, was once arrested after the Austin Police Department (APD) won a lot of stories about stolen phones on Friday evening of the pageant’s 2nd weekend.
After APD investigated, they allegedly found Castro-Ordonez with 35 phones inside of his bag. Castro-Ordonez was once discovered after one of the sufferers informed an worker operating on the pageant that they were given their telephone again from a bunch of males. The sufferer informed police that the gang of males denied taking his telephone till he was once in a position to make use of any other telephone to name it and heard it ringing inside of a bag.
The sufferer then identified the gang to police, which resulted in the arrest.
According to a testimony bought by means of KVUE, Castro-Ordonez allegedly used a Faraday bag to carry the 35 phones. The bag is designed to dam cellular reception from penetrating it, which is meant to dam the power to trace the phones. The affidavit additionally stated Castro-Ordonez attempted to run from police with two different suspects ahead of he was once detained.
Police stated 30 of the phones had been returned to their homeowners. Meanwhile, Castro-Ordonez was once charged with robbery and attractive in arranged criminality. He stays in prison on bonds totaling greater than $22,000.
ACL has been a primary goal for pickpocketing after greater than 250 stolen phones had been recovered in 2021.
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