Two workers for a restoration company have been charged with stealing cash and jewelry from an apartment of aJose Gamboa, 26, and Anger Uzcategui Pacheco, 20, were each charged with burglary after a resident turned over video showing them stealing from an apartment, according to Chicago police.
Gamboa and Pacheco were temporary workers for A-Emergency Services & Restoration, which was hired to work in the building after a 4-11 alarm fire climbed the outside walls of nine floors of the building in the 4800 block of South Lake Park Avenue last Wednesday. A woman was killed and either other residentsThe owner of the company told police that his workers were told not to enter any of the apartments.
The fire started in a 15th floor apartment of the complex and quickly spread up nine floors. The cause was “careless use of smoking materials” in a bedroom,” fire officials said. The apartment’s smoke alarm was not working at the time, the Chicago Fire Department said in a statement.On Nov.