Male, female accused of robbing elderly target of hard cash, jewellery

MIAMI – A man and a female are going through a number of expenses together with the exploitation of an aged person soon after law enforcement said the pair robbed a lady in Hialeah.

Authorities say that on November 30, at around 2 p.m., Milena Rojas, 39, and David Agudelo, 32, approached the 75-year-outdated victim as she was going for walks property from a grocery store in the 6000 block of West 14th Lane.

Investigators said they explained to the victim that they had received the lottery and would give her the winning ticket in trade for funds.  

“The topics acted in concert in makes an attempt to defraud the victim in a scam commonly recognised as pigeon drop or lottery scam. Throughout the fraud, the feminine subject asked the target if she could use her restroom. Both subjects then arrived at the victim’s residence, whilst the male topic waited in his motor vehicle,” law enforcement stated.

The arrest report mentioned that after inside the residence, Rojas approached the victim from powering, “pressed an not known object on her back again and demanded all her jewellery.”

Law enforcement reported that the victim complied and “surrendered about $2,000 value of jewelry.”

The target was then compelled back outside and into the awaiting auto, exactly where she was driven to her bank in Hialeah, where by she was requested to withdraw all her dollars, about $1,200, according to the arrest report.

The sufferer was then driven to a further dwelling and created to ask for $1,000.

At that position, law enforcement mentioned, the suspects fled with the victim’s cash and jewellery.

In the meantime, the target had to walk back residence exactly where she contacted authorities.

Authorities ended up equipped to assemble video footage from the victim’s residence showing the suspect’s car or truck, inevitably effecting a targeted visitors end of the automobile.

Later on, the victim would be introduced with a six-picture lineup and she determined Agudelo as the male suspect.

Via investigative indicates, law enforcement were being also in a position to find the feminine suspect, who was later on discovered as Rojas.

Agudelo and co-defendant Rojas have been transported to the Hialeah law enforcement station for official questioning.

Rojas offered a recorded statement and the two had been billed and transported to TGK.