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Criminal Records - Most Wanted |
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Profile |
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Name: Paulo
"El Diablo"
Enrique Lopez-Garcia
(Pauolo Garcia, Enrique Garcia)
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Sex: Male |
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Race: Hispanic |
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Age Now: 24 |
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Height: 6'0" |
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Weight: 180 lbs. |
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Hair (Color, Description, Facial Hair): Black
Usually shaves head bald
clean shaven in known photos |
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Eyes (Color and Correction): Brown |
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Other Physical Characteristics: |
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Wanted for :
Armed Robbery, Denver, CO;
May 25, 2004
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Location(s) |
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Last Seen : Denver, CO
Last seen leaving his mother's house in July 2003. |
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Possible Location : Chicago, IL
Chicago, Illinois
Agua Prieta in Sonora State, Mexico
Michoacan, Mexico where he may have a grandmother living or other relatives |
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Last Known : Denver, CO |
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Traits |
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Police say he's usually armed and the Tech-9 is his gun of choice |
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Case Story |
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Stick-Up Crew's Crime Caught By 16 Cameras |
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May 25, 2004 appeared to be a typical day at the Pawn 1 pawnshop in Sheridan, Colo., a suburb of Denver. Suddenly, six or seven young men, two of them brandishing handguns, burst into the store and quickly seized control of the three employees on duty.
As 16 surveillance cameras captured the robbery in living color, the robbers smashed jewelry cases, snatched 27 handguns and three shotguns and looted the cash drawers of at least $2,000. Most of those weapons are still out on the street and the ATF wants to find them -- click here to see what they look like.
One of the gun-wielding stick-up men has been identified by investigators as 19-year-old Paulo Enrique Lopez-Garcia. Lopez-Garcia is known on the streets of Denver as "El Diablo," or "The Devil."
Police say Lopez-Garcia and his crew took their time cleaning out the pawn shop. The average robbery is usually finished in just a minute or two, but this stickup lasted nearly eight minutes. When they were done, the robbers made their getaway in a large, white SUV which was later recovered by police.
By then, the crew had obviously acquired a new set of wheels -- because before long, El Diablo and his cohorts resurfaced halfway across the country. |
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The Charlotte Crime Spree |
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On June 4, 2004, just two weeks after the Pawn 1 robbery in Colorado, investigators say El Diablo and company had gone from west to east.
They turned up in Charlotte, N.C., where robbery squad detectives say they invaded a house of prostitution. El Diablo and his crew took the place over for approximately four hours, robbing everyone present, including a slew of patrons who had the misfortune of coming to the house while the stickup was in progress.
After the gunmen finally left, some of the victims were able to free themselves and call 911. The exact number of victims is not known, because by the time the crime was reported, many had left the scene.
But police say the gang from Colorado wasn't done yet. Between June 4 and 5, four Charlotte citizens were car-jacked at gunpoint, tied up, and robbed of cars, money and jewelry. One common element between the crimes -- the suspects tied the victims' hands with plastic zip ties.
On June 6, 2005, cops in Charlotte got their first break in the case. One of the car-jacking victims was at a Hispanic grocery store where he got a big surprise: he saw the exact same white, Ford F-150 that had been driven by the man who abducted him at gunpoint. He suspected his assailant, a young Hispanic male, was inside the bodega.
The victim immediately called 911 and Charlotte cops raced to the scene. Police took down Santos Perez, a reported member of the gang. What authorities didn't know was that other members of the gang were inside the bodega, but managed to slip away while Perez was being arrested.
As the others fled the scene, authorities searched Perez's truck and found three handguns that were traced by the ATF back to the Pawn 1 robbery in Colorado. A week after the arrest of Santos Perez, a store clerk found another pistol under some produce in a basket in the bodega. That gun was also taken during the Pawn 1 robbery. |
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Gang Banger Banged |
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The guns confirmed for investigators that cops in Charlotte and Denver were on the hunt for the same guys. But when shots rang out in a Charlotte motel room on June 13, 2005, the investigation took a deadly turn.
Inside the motel room, Charlotte-Mecklenburg detectives found the body of a young Hispanic man named Juan Gonzales. They also found a reciept for the purchase of zip ties. Gonzales was soon identified as one of the carjackers and the leader of the Colorado crew.
Word on the street was that a fight between Gonzalez and El Diablo, Lopez-Garcia, had led to the shooting. Now, authorities believe Lopez-Garcia has assumed the role of the gang's leader. Investigators tracked Lopez-Garcia back to Denver, where the trail has run cold.
ATF agents are still trying to recover the remainder of the guns stolen in the Pawn 1 robbery, but their main objective remains trying to track down El Diablo. |
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