4 men arrested in Jonesboro in connection with multi-state ATM robberies

Jonesboro, AR — (JonesboroRightNow.com) — April 7, 2025 — The Jonesboro Police Department and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Jonesboro made multiple arrests last week in connection with a string of multi-state ATM robberies.

According to a JPD news release, on April 3, investigators with the JPD Street Crimes Unit, Drug Task Force, and Homeland Security in Jonesboro received information from HSI Memphis and the Memphis Multi-Agency Gang Unit about possible subjects involved with ATM robberies throughout numerous southeastern states, who were believed to be in the Jonesboro area at the time.

“This is a multi-state involvement by this group,” said JPD Chief Rick Elliott. “They weren’t physically breaking into machines; they had technology where they were being able to access the machine by electronic means.”

Jonesboro Flock cameras picked up the license plate on one of the suspected vehicles on Phillips Drive. Agents identified the vehicle in the parking lot of a local hotel. The news release added that HSI and the Atlanta FBI Field Office obtained a second vehicle description and provided that to JPD officers. The vehicle was located at the same hotel, which JPD did not name.

Officers conducted a traffic stop on one of the vehicles at the intersection of Race Street and Caraway Road, arresting Felix Josue Rendon-Garcia on a warrant for robbery out of Georgia. Investigators and agents then went to the suspected hotel room and located three other men associated with him.

“Our Real Time Crime Center, the technology that we have in there, especially the license plate reader, the system was linked in across the country and investigators from other states were able to track them to Jonesboro, notify us that they were here,” Elliott said. “Our agents got on it, set up and observed them and subsequently took them down.”

The four suspects were arrested and initially transported to the Craighead County Detention Center with holds for Georgia and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Jose David Rivas Sifontes, Juan Jose Marin Garcia, Alexander Jose Marquez Caraballo, and Rendon-Garcia were arrested.

Elliot said the suspects are no longer being held at the detention center, which is why their mugshots are not listed on the center’s online jail roster.  He said ICE removed them from the center, but did not know when it happened.

“There was an instant detainer placed on them and it sounds like ICE came in pretty quick and removed them,” Elliott said.

According to the release, the suspects are known to have affiliations with the foreign terrorist organization, Tren de Aragua (TdA). Homeland Security Investigations is pursuing federal charges against the subjects.

Investigators also obtained a search warrant for the hotel room and found over $46,000 in cash and multiple items used in the robberies in various spots throughout the room and vehicles, the release said.