September 26, 2019
A 30-year-old woman has been charged with working with four group of people who broke into storage units in Waco and across McLennan County with items then being pawned or sold.
Isabel Denise Gonzalez was already in the McLennan County Jail on numerous credit card abuse charges out of Lacy Lakeview when the new charges of engaging in organized criminal activity were served on her by investigators with the McLennan County Sheriff’s Office.
An arrest affidavit stated that she was accused of working others in entering storage units that had the locks cut off and other locks put in their place.
Deputies had been working a storage unit burglary case in West when other county cases were discovered and it was learned that the Waco Police Department were working several more.
Waco police ran a search warrant with the assistance of deputies where items such as a leather riding saddle, golf clubs, all sorts of tools and other items that matched sheriff’s office cases were recovered.
During the investigation Gonzalez was seen with others taking items from storage units and placing them in a unit held by one of the co-conspirators.
Investigators ran pawn lists for Gonzalez and others in the suspect group and were able to locate stolen property.
The arrest affidavit stated that one of the others questioned in the cases said it was Gonzalez who would locate the storage units and coordinated what items were being sold and pawned at the different pawnshops.
The affidavit quoted one of those questioned as saying Gonzalez would pop the locks of the storage units and leave other locks in their place.
Thursday Gonzalez remained in the McLennan County Jail on the county charges of engaging in organized crime, a Waco PD charge of theft of property, a Waco PD charge of engaging in organized criminal activity and had previous bonds revoked for an earlier charge of possession of methamphetamine and nine cases of credit or debit card abuse out of Lacy Lakeview.
Source: https://www.fox44news.com/news/local-news/local/woman-charged-in-storage-unit-theft-ring/