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Two Colombian nationals have pleaded guilty for their part in a sophisticated burglary ring which sought out Asian American business owners in multiple cities across Oregon and Washington ...

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Court documents say that Martinez-Grandas and Quiroga-Solano were part of a group which burglarized four homes in early October 2025, staying in short-term rentals as they moved between cities and looked for potential victims, all of them Asian American small business owners.

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In all, seven suspects have been indicted in federal court for their alleged involvement in the burglary ring. U.S. Attorney for the District of Oregon Scott Bradford said Tuesday that four have since pleaded guilty, one was removed from the U.S. by immigration authorities, and two are still fugitives.

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"When they carried out the burglaries, the defendants employed signal jamming technology, perimeter countersurveillance, and communicated on seven-way group calls. They entered their victims' homes by shattering glass doors," ...

The crew then "ransacked" each home, looking for cash, jewelry, designer handbags, purses, wallets, travel documents and other valuables.

For a burglary in Gresham, federal prosecutors said, Quiroga-Solano first looked up Chinese restaurants in the area. The next night, he allegedly cased a victim's home in Gresham — preparation, investigators believe, for a burglary the next day.

Martinez-Grandas was responsible for arranging the crew's short-term rentals in Auburn, Washington and Eugene, also mapping the address of a target home in Salem. ...

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The U.S. Attorney's Office said the crew had more than a dozen cell phones, and investigators found evidence of money wires to Bogota, Colombia...

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Three people suspecting in a series of pickpocket crimes in San Francisco's Chinatown were arrested over the weekend after a weeks-long investigation, police said Tuesday.

The San Francisco Police Department said in a press release that it received reports from members of the Chinatown community and local merchants about multiple pickpocket and thefts across the neighborhood since early last month, including one victim who lost approximately $4,000 in property.

... police used automated license plate reader cameras and a police drone to track the vehicle and suspects within Chinatown. Video provided by the Police Department showed drone footage of the suspects stealing from victims as they walked on the sidewalk, working together as one person would take personal items from backpacks or purses while two other would block the view and act as lookouts.

... The suspects were identified as Vallejo residents Stefan Ruset, 35; Marian Constantine, 30; and Florin Matei, 26. On Sunday, officers executed a search warrant at their home in Vallejo and recovered additional stolen property, including property linked to a 2024 pickpocket victim, along with more than $14,000 in cash, police said.

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https://abc7news.com/amp/post/surveillance-video-shows-pickpocket-crew-targeting-victims-san-franciscos-chinatown/19133201/

Newly released surveillance video from the San Francisco Police Department shows a trio working together to target unsuspecting victims. In the footage, two people act as lookouts while another reaches into a victim's bag, taking items within seconds. Police say the group is linked to multiple thefts, including one case where a victim lost $4,000 worth of valuables. Officers say the thefts can happen so quietly that victims often do not realize their belongings are gone until much later.

"They pulled my hair to get like a distraction and then I turned away. I think that's the point that they help another person take something from my bag," said Fay, who described being targeted months ago while riding a bus. Fay said she did not immediately realize anything had been taken until she received fraud alerts on her phone.

"Someone used my card to run in Walgreens. So I was like, how could that happen? I have my card with me. And then I look at my bag, it was like, oh, it's gone," she said.

Do yall Asians have sympathy for the west Papuans that Indonesia are currently colonising and for all those past negrito peoples lands and culture like the jooz and white Australians ? Asking from an Australian Aboriginal perspective… I have Asian friends btw

I feel like i need to say something about the mentalities and discussions we've been having in this sub. One asian person to another because this type of conversation would sound misplaced coming from someone else.

Acoording to the rules, this community is supposed to be for positive change through social analysis.

If we truly want to help ourselves and others in the diasporic asian community, we must ground our discussions in verifiable reality. This means drawing conclusions backed by empirical evidence, data, secondary analysis, historical facts, and credible subject experts.

Personal experiences matter and should not be ignored, but anecdotes alone can not explain broad social realities. Right now, a massive portion of the content here relies on unverified anecdotal experiences to draw massive, sweeping conclusions. From what i see, this approach has led to highly problematic trends in this sub, including:

-Misplaced misogyny blaming Asian women for dating disparities.

-Unchecked racism directed at Black and white people with a failure to contextualize race historically and systemically.

-Inflammatory attitudes that border on Asian supremacy.

Among other things.

We cannot change societal perspectives on Asian people with these reactive mindsets. How can we demand respect from others while making baseless claims about race? How can we participate in larger conversations about racial justice and societal change when we refuse to analyze the institutional systems and histories affecting both other groups and our own?

Yes, its true asian people face racism. I'm sure you also know that other races experience racism too. If we want to change another persons racist mindset, we must be able to educate them on the reality of race as a whole.

All I ask is to challenge your preexisting beliefs about any racial trope against any minority and look to see if your perspective is backed by history and evidence. We must differentiate between validating our emotional experiences and drawing generalized racial conclusions about people.

Some books/sources/frameworks to investigate:

-Contemporary Asian America: A Multidisciplinary Reader by Min Zhou and Anthony Christian Ocampo

-Asian America: Sociological and Interdisciplinary Perspectives by Pawan Dhingra and Robyn Magalit Rodriguez

-​The Color of Crime by Katheryn Russell-Brown

-The Revolutionary Life of Yuri Kochiyama by Diane C. Fujino

-The Asian American Achievement Paradox by Jennifer Lee and Min Zhou

Thats just a few but i urge you to find your own readings that both support and oppose an opinion to draw an objective conclusion.

I'm a producer-rapper from NYC who produces writes raps and records all his own music, Ive been making tracks for a long time and have done production work for artists like Khantrast before. I just started releasing my music last year and have gained some traction...I was trying to make a playlist with all the top asian artists making music in english and the list was super limited. What are some of your favorite asian rappers that you feel like are representing us in the correct way?

Hi I just wanted to vent about something and also get some advice as this is something that is really weighing on me and I'm honestly bothered and don't know what to do.

Growing up in America, I've always known that my monolids set me apart in some way. I was never the same as my white peers, and my monolids emphasized that. I've always had body image issues, whether it was something about my weight, my face, etc. For a period of time, I was overweight and then lost 40 pounds, and from then I gained a lot of confidence and this experience bled into other parts of my looks and helped me feel more confident about being asian and having monolids in some way. Recently, I've been really confident about my looks, as I learned how to wear lashes and do my makeup and hair well, I've had a lot of boys approach me, and I have a steady friend group of girls that are a lot cooler than I would think I am, which I've never had before. I also won class president, so I've been feeling pretty confident as you can imagine.

However, I guess this newfound confidence kind of covered up unaddressed insecurities that i'm unable to change, like being asian in a predominantly white community and specifically having monolids. Today, my family was talking about appearances for some reason, and my brother decided to point out that I have small eyes. This already made me kind of irritated, cus like yeah i have small eyes but you don't gotta point it out. Like we're asian what else do you want me to do lmao. But then, my mom brought up that my cousin is getting double eyelid surgery, and that I could too if I wanted and that they "make it look very natural in Korea." This made me absolutely lose my shit. I said "why would you say that to me" and went to my room and deadass cried for 5 hours straight. I guess I never really realized how much being asian and having monolids, especially in a white community, has affected me. I feel so insecure now about my monolids I want to scrap my eyelids off and just hide under a rock. I've never felt more insecure and ashamed of my looks before, and I genuinely dont know what to do. Should I just get the surgery in Korea so this whole thing can just be over with? I feel like such a loser for letting this affect me so much, and i have so many other things to worry about, but I just can't move on. Pls help

starting this with i like being asian (chinese) around other asians, i like my culture, the language, i consume tons of asian media, i watch also anime and korean media, makeup beauty fashion skincare everything like i love it… in a bubble

it’s so hard when im getting different signals from society and the corporate working world and i have always wished that i was white (even HALF white) and how much easier that would make things in the outside world, whether it’s white senior leaders only paying attention to white junior employees and interns, all the people with power being the white folks and also just gravitating to liking white employees by default, with my currently skillset and abilities, being white would like double my success i feel like

plus this wouldn’t even be fixed if i moved to an asian country (i’m in north america) because in asian countries, they love foreigners, white folk, expensive international schools employ white people, use them as the face of school and they are regarded as “better” when there are white teachers, in corporate, the senior leaders brought over don’t even need to learn the local language and will have translators, and things wouldn’t even be better in asia for me anyways

it’s not like i can exactly change my race completely but boy, everyday, do i think to myself, how much easier it would be if i was just white, or even half

i may just have to find a more “asian” company to work at, but with large international companies, you betcha the senior leaders are literally all white, even white men, and it’s not like chinese folk have solidarity with each other like the koreans and japanese do, so i’m honestly just cooked and have to really just grind this out myself, which is FINE, but when you have a call of poc interns + 1 white intern and white senior leaders comes in and basically just talks to white intern, what else am i supposed to feel other than wishing i was white