22 Year Old Jams Up Houston Police Communication with 1 Device

A 22-year-old managed to cripple communication and much more from police officers responding to a burglary in Houston.

Ignacio Castillo Contreras was caught after breaking into a Houston home; however, it wasn't without complications. According to West University Place Police, Contreras was wearing a backpack with a device that momentarily had police scrambling to recover communication.

Tucked in the backpack that Contreras had on was a radio frequency jamming device that caused unexpected disruption. Officers in the vicinity of the jamming device encountered issues with their equipment. The device had disabled key fobs to police patrol units, interfered with police-issued hand-help radios, and even disabled the officers' body cams.

The elaborate thought process of the crime has some thinking this was no ordinary criminal. One tech expert spoke to Fox 26 about the situation, "In my opinion, as a tech expert, I can tell you that whoever did this has some tactical knowledge on how to use this device and where to place them," Juan Guevara Torres said.

Former Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg explained the seriousness of the jamming device Contreras had:

"If you imagine an ordinary criminal committing a crime with a radio frequency jamming device, now add to that someone with real bad intent who wants to harm a lot of people like a terrorist, a mass murderer, and it gets scary quick," Ogg said.

Ignacio Castillo Contreras, who had been living in a Houston motel for just a few months, was charged with residential burglary and interfering with a radio frequency licensed to a government entity in connection with the incident.