Four Members of International Burglary Team Arrested!

Manhattan, NY – On October 24, 2018, Geoffrey S. Bergman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, William F. Sweeney Jr., Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and James P. O’Neill, Commissioner of the New York City Police Department (NYPD), announced that four individuals were charged for their involvement in a series of burglaries that spanned both sides of the Atlantic.

 

An unsealed indictment states that Damir Pejcinovic, 44, Gzimi Bojkovic, 36, Adrian Fiseku, 35, and Elvis Cirikovic, 35, were arrested on October 24, 2018. The aforementioned members committed burglaries that resulted in more than $10 million of ill-gotten gains. The group carried out burglaries in New York City, California, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Florida, Massachusetts, Maine, and Europe.

Pejcinovic, Bojkovic, Fiseku, and Cirikovic, were each charged with one count of racketeering conspiracy, which has a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison. They were also charged with one count of conspiracy to commit interstate transportation of stolen property.

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