MIAMI — A girl is going through prices following she was accused of making use of Tinder to lure a person to a Miami Gardens apartment complex final month the place he was carjacked at gunpoint, in accordance to court files.
The exact same car that was stolen from the sufferer was later employed on Dec. 5 by a suspect who is now going through prices that he allegedly shot an undercover Miami-Dade officer who had been next the stolen motor vehicle, the courtroom documents clearly show.
Alexis Raianna Cardenas, 22, who has a Wisconsin handle, was staying held Tuesday on a no-bond purchase and is experiencing a 2nd-diploma felony demand of conspiracy to dedicate theft/carjacking as well as a initial-degree armed robbery/carjacking cost, in accordance to the arrest warrant.
Miami-Dade Corrections Section
Investigators explained in the court docket doc that Cardenas met the unknown victim at a Miami Gardens at 17321 NW 7th Ave. on Nov. 20 about 1 a.m.
The two experienced evidently first related on Tinder, an on the internet matchmaking application for people today seeking for romance.
Investigators said the woman experienced the guy park his black Volkswagen Jetta in a close by condominium sophisticated, where the sufferer was “ambushed” a small time later on by two other adult men who had been dressed in all black and armed. They compelled the sufferer to get on the floor and unlock his mobile phone right before they drove away in the automobile.
The male advised police the female “smirked” at the man as they drove away in his vehicle.
That similar car was remaining adopted by an undercover officer previously this thirty day period when the carjacking suspect, discovered as Gabriel Gongora, 20, opened hearth on a person of the officers who was part of the surveillance operation. The 34-12 months-old officer suffered a gunshot wound and was taken to JMH Ryder Trauma Centre for treatment of a non-lifestyle-threatening harm.
The suspect has been determined as Gabriel Gongora, 20. He has been billed with very first-degree tried murder of a regulation enforcement officer.
Investigators have not said if they have identified the second suspect who was stated in the arrest warrant for Cardenas.
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