MIAMI — Previous Miami-Dade Public Faculties Board member Lubby Navarro has been arrested in relationship with an ongoing theft probe, authorities claimed Thursday.
In accordance to Miami-Dade’s corrections office internet site, she’s been charged with grand theft and structured fraud.
State Lawyer Kathleen Fernandez Rundle was scheduled to keep a information conference at 2:30 p.m. to present more details about the case.
Navarro, who resigned in late December 2022, was snared in a probe relating to her use of a faculty board issued credit history card to coverr a number of 1000’s of pounds of her particular expenditures, in accordance to the Miami Herald.
“Miami-Dade County Public Schools has been produced conscious of the new arrest of previous School Board Member Lubby Navarro,” a spokesperson for the Miami-Dade County Public Schools said in a written statement. “As this continues to be an energetic, open make any difference, we will not be commenting on this predicament. We will fully cooperate with law enforcement businesses as essential.”
An formal at the Miami-Dade jail reported Navarro surrendered to law enforcement sometime Thursday but it was not obvious if she had been booked into the county jail or if bond has been set.
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