PRESS RELEASE: ERIE COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY’S OFFICE
Erie County District Attorney John J. Flynn announces that 51-year-old Luis E. Diaz Rincon, 44-year-old Hillmer Bayona Arango, 46-year-old Jose A. Ordonez Saenz, and 21-year-old Cristian Matias Borbon-Sanchez were sentenced before State Supreme Court Justice Mark A. Montour to time served. The defendants, Colombian nationals who were last known to reside in Queens, were sentenced on Wednesday, April 27, 2022.
On January 12, 2022, at approximately 1:30 p.m., West Seneca Police officers responded to a home on Taylor Drive after receiving a 911 call from the victim to report a home burglary. The defendants unlawfully entered the home by breaking a rear glass door. When the officers arrived on scene two minutes after the call, the burglars had already drove off in a vehicle. West Seneca Police received a second 911 call from a witness who saw the defendants running through the neighborhood before driving away and followed their vehicle. The defendants drove to a gas station nearby on Seneca Street where two defendants were taken into custody. To other defendants attempted to run, but were quickly apprehended. Police found cash, burglar tools and a pair of Apple AirPods that belonged to the victim inside of the vehicle.
All four defendants were initially arraigned in West Seneca Town Court and held on $100,000 bail. On February 25, 2022, the defendants pleaded guilty to one count of Attempted Burglary in the Second Degree (Class “D” felony) and were remanded without bail.
After being sentenced last week, the defendants were remanded to the custody of the Buffalo Federal Detention Facility in Batavia to await deportation to Colombia.
DA Flynn commends the West Seneca Police Department for their work in the investigation as well as the witness who called police to report the suspicious behavior as the defendants fled the scene.
The case was prosecuted by Assistant District Attorney Briana R. D. Miller of the Felony Trials Bureau.