Monday's report. Miami-Dade County. April sixteenth, twenty twenty-six.
Five stories today. A school board member headed to prison. A reality TV star headed to booking. A fatal shooting at a festival. A kidnapping by trunk. And two men who thought following bank customers home was a career plan. Let's get into it.
First. Former Miami-Dade School Board Vice Chair Lubby Navarro was sentenced Tuesday to fourteen months in state prison after pleading guilty to one count of third-degree grand theft. Prosecutors say Navarro used a district credit card to fund roughly one hundred thousand dollars in personal expenses, including vacations to the Dominican Republic, Las Vegas, and Disney World, along with clothes, home appliances, and beauty products. She allegedly doctored receipts and whited out her name to avoid detection. The case was built by Miami-Dade Inspector General Felix Jimenez and State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle's office. Under the plea deal, Navarro must repay one hundred and one thousand, one hundred nine dollars and forty-seven cents, starting sixty days after release. She's also barred from holding public office. In court, Navarro apologized to the students of Miami-Dade County. Her attorney described her spending as, quote, coping mechanisms. The district credit card apparently coped its way to the Dominican Republic.
Story two. Real Housewives of Miami star Lisa Hochstein turned herself in to the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center on Wednesday. The charge is interception of communication, a felony under Florida law. According to the arrest warrant, Hochstein and her former boyfriend Jody Daniel Glidden allegedly planted a digital audio recorder under her ex-husband Lenny Hochstein's Mercedes back in twenty twenty-three, during their contentious divorce. Police say they recovered ninety-eight recordings from the device. Lenny Hochstein, a prominent Miami plastic surgeon, reported the device after finding it in the vehicle. Hochstein was released on her own recognizance. Her attorney Jayne Weintraub called it a matter that, quote, does not belong in criminal court. Florida, for the record, is an all-parties consent state. You cannot record someone without their knowledge during a private conversation. Even if that someone is your ex-husband, and even if the recordings are fascinating.
Story three. Miami police continue investigating the fatal triple shooting at the Taste of Miami Karnival in Little Haiti. The shooting occurred late Sunday near the main stage at Northeast Second Avenue and Northeast Sixty-Second Street. Three people were shot, two men and a woman. Twenty-three-year-old Kitchner Cyrille did not survive. New surveillance video released this week shows the crowd fleeing in a stampede. Miami Police Chief Manuel Morales says investigators believe the shooting was targeted and have identified a person of interest, but no arrests have been made. Anyone with information is asked to contact Miami-Dade homicide at three oh five, six oh three, sixty-three fifty.
Story four. Twenty-four-year-old Travis Tillman Junior was arrested early Wednesday morning on kidnapping and battery charges. According to the arrest report, Tillman got into a verbal dispute with his girlfriend just before one a.m., grabbed her by the arm, put her in the trunk of her car, and drove off. When he eventually opened the trunk and she tried to get out, he allegedly struck her multiple times in the face and body. Deputies stopped the vehicle at Northwest One Hundred Seventy-Ninth Street and Northwest Sixty-Eighth Avenue. Surveillance video confirmed the account. Tillman told investigators, and I'm quoting the report here, that she said she would rather be in the trunk than be around him. That is not, for the record, how consent works.
And finally. Two men are in custody for a series of bank jugging robberies across Miami-Dade. Kishawn Zell Walker Perkins, twenty-nine, and Armon Christopher Jiles, twenty-six, allegedly followed customers leaving Chase bank branches, trailed them home, and robbed them. In the most disturbing incident, seventy-nine-year-old Pedro Parrado was attacked outside his home on March twenty-seventh after withdrawing cash from a Chase branch near Dadeland. He was grabbed from behind, pulled to the ground, and suffered a head laceration and abrasions. Both suspects face charges including armed robbery and aggravated battery on an elderly person.
That's the report. A school board member learns that district funds don't cover personal shopping sprees. A reality star discovers Florida's wiretapping laws. A community mourns a young man lost to festival violence. And Miami-Dade's justice system keeps processing the evidence, one case at a time.
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