After the Colombian Marielys Valencia Martinez39, was detained without bail last Wednesday, September 21, after being accused of theft of 20 thousand dollars in jewelry, managed to prove his innocence and was released.
Valencia Martínez was arrested in the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airportin the south of Florida (USA)and remained under arrest for 5 days in the Broward County Jail, north of the city of Miami.
to the native woman from Barranquillawas accused of stealing jewelry for that amount from a man who met on the Internet about a year ago.
According to the police report, Freed Hunt (a native of the city of Miramar, Florida), agreed to meet the woman in Miami for a date in the month of December 2021, when they met in a restaurant to meet.
The complaint states that Hunt removed a clear plastic bag of jewelry from his car, at which point Valencia Martínez identified a bracelet and two diamond rings. The woman asked about their value and if they were for sale, according to the report.
The man reportedly allowed the woman to wear the jewelry at a nightclub they attended together before taking her home. where he removed the jewelry that he placed in a box on a shelf.
The police information indicates that during the early hours of December 5 last year, the woman asked him to take her back to her hotel, once he had stolen the jewels without the man noticing.
Two days after returning to Colombia, the woman would have created a publication on the social network of Instagram and a video of TikTok showing the stolen jewels.
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Later, the man would have contacted her to ask her to return the jewelry, to which she replied that it would cost too much to send it by mail, so he would bring the stolen when he returned to South Florida.
The version of Marielys Valencia
According to Valencia (former employee of the Government of the Atlantic) she met this North American citizen through social networks, thus making him known in a video that she published on his Facebook account, explaining what happened after proving his innocence.