Given the neighborhood and what is being stolen I would say it's gangs but not necessarily Hispanic gangs. They go for different stores, different things. Home Depot is a big one because they need tools and trucks/vans for construction sites in the DC area where they supply the cheap labor. Everyone focuses on the sex trade of the human trafficking issue but they completely ignore the indentured worker who gets paid jack shit because the cartels are taking their salary. They spend years paying off the smugglers, if they can ever pay them off at all. Construction companies (Americans) will sometimes buy the houses and rent out individual bedrooms (for $1,000 each room) thus facilitating the cartels and their human trafficking while pocketing the money. You see one group of illegals who are barely getting by and leaving at 5am and coming home at 9pm with 4-5 piled into the truck for their commute, then you see some guy who looks just like that guy and he has unexplained wealth, with a $140,000 Ford pickup truck. Same country of origin, sometimes even the same town / village. It is a lot like the Irish gangs in NYC / Boston in the 1800s, selling fellow countrymen into slavery.
For DC / Montgomery county - when it comes to stealing laundry detergent from the Giant - it's usually the established American gangs for those neighborhoods.
Given the neighborhood and what is being stolen I would say it's gangs but not necessarily Hispanic gangs. They go for different stores, different things. Home Depot is a big one because they need tools and trucks/vans for construction sites in the DC area where they supply the cheap labor. Everyone focuses on the sex trade of the human trafficking issue but they completely ignore the indentured worker who gets paid jack shit because the cartels are taking their salary. They spend years paying off the smugglers, if they can ever pay them off at all. Construction companies (Americans) will sometimes buy the houses and rent out individual bedrooms (for $1,000 each room) thus facilitating the cartels and their human trafficking while pocketing the money. You see one group of illegals who are barely getting by and leaving at 5am and coming home at 9pm with 4-5 piled into the truck for their commute, then you see some guy who looks just like that guy and he has unexplained wealth, with a $140,000 Ford pickup truck. Same country of origin, sometimes even the same town / village. It is a lot like the Irish gangs in NYC / Boston in the 1800s, selling fellow countrymen into slavery.
For DC / Montgomery county - when it comes to stealing laundry detergent from the Giant - it's usually the established American gangs for those neighborhoods.