Murder suspect, 3 others accused in DuPage burglary ring

Four men, including one awaiting trial for murder in Chicago, were being held in DuPage County Monday following their arrest for allegedly operating a burglary ring.

The men, each charged with two counts of residential burglary, were identified as Brian David, 37, of Mazon, Ill.; Louis Capuzi, 54, of the 700 block of North Rockwell Street in Chicago; Richard Green, 37, of the 2800 block of North Kilpatrick Avenue in Chicago; and Frank Obrochta, 46, of Melrose Park.

DuPage County sheriff's police had the group under surveillance when they allegedly burglarized a home in Addison and one in Itasca on Friday, DuPage County State's Attorney Robert Berlin said Monday.

Officers followed the men to a house on the northwest side of Chicago, and after obtaining a search warrant, entered the house and found items reported stolen, Berlin said.

The four appeared in court Sunday morning. Bail was set at $ 1.5 million for David, Capuzi and Green. Obrochta, who is charged with murder in Chicago, was being held on $ 6 million bail, according to jail records.

In the Chicago case, Obrochta is charged with home invasion and murder stemming from a September 2010 break-in, authorities said. Obrochta and an accomplice are alleged to have broken into a residence. The homeowner had a weapon and shot the intruders, fatally wounding the accomplice, according to Eric Shah, an attorney at Stone and Associates, which represents Obrochta. Because the accomplice died during a felony Obrochta allegedly committed in which force was used, Obrochta was charged with murder.

Berlin declined to offer many details of what he said was an ongoing investigation in the DuPage cases, but he acknowledged that the four men charged were allegedly running a sophisticated operation.

They used separate vehicles as a safeguard, he said, with the burglars using one vehicle to commit the burglary and then driving off to a meet the second vehicle to transfer the stolen goods. Had someone witnessed the burglary and given a vehicle description to police, that car would not have had any stolen property inside during a police stop, Berlin said.

The investigation against the men is continuing, Berlin said, and police are seeing whether they may have been involved in other unsolved burglary cases in the Chicago area.

chicagobreaking@tribune.com

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