The defendants, all from Chile, are accused of participating in a South American crime group targeting multimillion-dollar homes, the authorities said. One of them appeared to belong to the Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow.

Four men from Chile were indicted Tuesday in what the Ohio attorney general called a string of burglaries at multimillion-dollar homes, but he declined to say whether professional athletes were the targets.

Four men from Chile have been indicted in connection with a series of burglaries targeting multimillion-dollar homes across Southwest Ohio, authorities announced on Tuesday. The men, arrested earlier this month,