MIAMI — A experience-share driver who was in the beginning arrested on fraud rates in Miami is now dealing with new sexual assault allegations, law enforcement mentioned.
In a assertion delivered by City of Miami Police on Saturday, 49-calendar year-aged Danny Estalin Maurad-Avecillas was originally arrested and at first charged with two counts of fraudulent use of a credit card and 1 depend of fraudulent possession of identification previously this thirty day period. Nonetheless, it turns out that he may be connected to a greater investigation.
According to Miami PD, the investigation includes a ride-share driver using a “silver or black SUV” who is suspected of concentrating on ladies in the evening hours, waiting for their ride-share, luring them in, intoxicating, robbing and perhaps sexually assaulting them.
In accordance to an arrest affidavit received by CBS Information Miami, law enforcement responded to a January 12 incident, in which the sufferer said she had left South Beach in an Uber and “woke up bare” inside of of a motel with no recollection of how she acquired there.
She then informed police that she was traveling to from California with her two male pals. In accordance to the affidavit, the group departed their Airbnb in Miami Seaside and went to the bar Zari. Upon leaving, 1 of the male close friends purchased an Uber, explained to be a grey Honda HR-V to take them back to their Airbnb.
Law enforcement then considered some CCTV movie from that night, which showed the target and one particular of the mates out front of the Miami Beach front Aged Metropolis Corridor. The footage also showed the sufferer, who was wearing dark-colored apparel at the time, finding into a grey Chevrolet Traverse just before driving away.
According to the affidavit, the target advised police that her buddy had suggested that the motor vehicle she was getting into “was not her Uber” nonetheless, her good friend then claimed he experienced listened to the door shut and saw a “Hispanic male” enter the driver’s seat and drove off.
The victim was then awakened the upcoming day at the motel by a cleansing girl, who advised her that she experienced passed her time to keep there. In accordance to the affidavit, the target was bare and experienced felt ache in her pelvic spot and her still left knee. She also found that $240 was missing from her purse and that she had bruises on her forehead, arms and at the rear of her right knee. The victim then went more than to a close by restaurant, where by she asked for to talk with police.
Miami Police also spoke with the victim’s pal, who confirmed with them that he experienced warned her that she was obtaining inside of the improper Uber, the affidavit stated.
Miami Law enforcement then watched additional CCTV video clip from a gas station close by, where they saw the suspect — later on determined as Maurad-Avecillas — arriving in a grey Chevy Traverse that next early morning, with a front passenger donning darkish-colored outfits. Maurad-Avecillas is then observed obtaining out of the motor vehicle and wearing a pink shirt with black hat, black pants and footwear, from the driver’s aspect and starts pumping his automobile up with gas prior to leaving the gasoline station.
Other CCTV video then confirmed Maurad-Avecillas back again up his auto into a parking spot at the motel with the same entrance-seat passenger — identified as the sufferer — prior to presenting the motel attendant with a credit history card. Even so, the attendant informed him that he needed an ID to system the card, so Maurad-Avecillas is found returning to the motor vehicle and “rummage by it” ahead of returning to the attendant with the victim’s ID. The motel attendant then billed the credit card she was specified for Maurad-Avecillas and the sufferer to have a area for six several hours.
In accordance to the affidavit, the motel attendant then viewed Maurad-Avecillas choose the sufferer out of the motor vehicle and escort her to the home. The motel attendant informed police that the sufferer appeared to be “intoxicated” and had to guide her and Maurad-Avecillas to their room. CCTV video clip later on displays Maurad-Avecillas approaching the sufferer to get her ID all over again to present to the motel attendant, but she refused, telling him that the target can retrieve it “after she leaves.” Soon right after, the gray Chevy is seen leaving the motel.
Miami Law enforcement have been then in a position to affirm that the sufferer was the front-seat passenger just after evaluating her ID with what was witnessed on CCTV video and immediately after interviewing the motel attendant.
According to the affidavit, the sufferer went as a result of her financial institution account transactions and observed a demand at the gasoline station wherever Maurad-Avecillas was witnessed previously, which law enforcement were able to ensure by comparing time stamps among her lender transactions and CCTV video.
Right after operating a records test on the Chevy to confirm that the car belonged to Maurad-Avecillas, law enforcement discovered him at his Miami-Dade residence and arrested him.
Miami Police is urging any person with data with regards to the problem or who may have been a target of a equivalent crime to occur forward and aid with their investigation by calling the Special Victims Unit at (305) 603-6300 or (305) 579-6111, or by e mail at svu@miami-police.org.
