MIAMI – The Broward Sheriff’s Business office has arrested a few guys and one particular girl on costs of deriving proceeds from prostitution and dollars laundering in a multi-12 months on the web escort investigation.
Here’s what BSO explained led to the arrests:
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“In Oct of 2021, detectives with BSO’s Strategic Investigations Division commenced investigating a amount of web sites operating in or from Broward County advertising female escorts. Through the investigation, detectives partnered with Homeland Safety Investigations and obtained information that led them to a few sites, Platinum Pleasures, So Alluring Escorts, and Queen of Hearts, considered to be engaged in prison activities connected to prostitution.”
Detectives identified brothers Justo and Jack Fernandez as the operators of Platinum Pleasures, Marcelo Arbelo as the operator of So Hot Escort, and Yaydelin Struggle as the operator of Queen of Hearts.
The investigation also uncovered that the “women marketed on just about every internet site ended up based at multiple resorts in either Broward or Miami-Dade counties.”
The Fernandez brothers have been arrested on Monday in the metropolitan areas of Hollywood and Pembroke Pines. Arbelo was arrested on Tuesday, March 28, in Plantation.
Authorities say all 4 suspects experience deriving proceeds from prostitution and cash laundering expenses.
Arbelo faces extra expenses linked to sexual battery and human trafficking in Doral, investigators explained.
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