Four men have been indicted on charges related to the break-in at Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow’s home in December 2024.
The men, all of Chilean descent, were indicted on Tuesday, January 21, according to Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost. They all face charges of engaging in a pattern of corrupt activity, participating in a criminal gang and possessing criminal tools.
All four suspects were arrested on January 10, accused of carrying out a string of burglaries targeting multimillion-dollar homes.
According to a criminal complaint obtained by CNN, the suspects were pulled over for a traffic violation when officers found “an old LSU shirt and Bengals hat, believed to be stolen from the December 9, 2024 burglary in Hamilton County.”
The home of Burrow, 28, who attended college at LSU, was burglarized on December 9 while he and the Bengals were in Texas to face the Dallas Cowboys on Monday Night Football.
In the report, investigators say the men claimed to be in Ohio because they wanted to see snow.
The search of the suspects’ vehicle also resulted in the finding of burglary tools, namely “two Husky automatic center punch tools wrapped in a cloth towel behind the glove box.”
The men were booked into the Clark County Jail and remain in custody.
At the time of the robbery, Burrow’s rumored girlfriend, Olivia Ponton, was listed on the police report as being on the premises when deputies arrived.
Ponton, 22, told authorities she noticed a “shattered bedroom window” and that a room had been “ransacked.” Her mother, Diane, called 911 to report the break-in.
“Someone is trying to break into the house right now,” Ponton’s mother told the dispatcher. “My daughter is there. This is Joe Burrow’s house. She is staying there. He’s at the football game.”
Burrow and Ponton have not publicly disclosed the nature of their relationship. The police report listed Ponton as being “employed by Mr. Burrow.”
Two days after the robbery, Burrow addressed the incident with members of the media.
“So obviously everybody has heard what has happened. I feel like my privacy has been violated in more ways than one,” Burrow said during a December 11 press conference. “And way more is already out there than I would want out there and that I care to share, so that’s all I got to say about that.”
He added, “We live a public life and one of my least favorite parts of that is the lack of privacy. And that has been difficult for me to deal with my entire career. Still learning. But I understand it’s the life that we choose. Doesn’t make it any easier to deal with.”
The burglary at Burrow’s home was part of a string of robberies targeting professional athletes, including Kansas City Chiefs stars Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelce.
It is unclear if the arrests in the Burrow case are related to the robberies of Mahomes, 29, or Kelce, 35, which both happened in October 2024.
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