MADRID, Spain.- The Cuban Eduardo Miguel Rivera Paz, 37 years old, appeared this Monday in Florida Court accused of stealing a shipment of phones Samsung cell phones.
Rivera Paz worked as a supervisor in the DHL Express cargo department at Miami International Airport. On March 20, a shipment of cell phones destined for Colombia was replaced by bags of sand so that the weight was equal to that of the phones, the channel specified. Telemundo 51.
The Cuban citizen, who lived in a trailer park neighborhood in Miramar, in Broward County, Florida, is accused of having exchanged telephones for sand; a theft valued at $1.2 million.
The cargo arrived in Colombia and the sand cleared customs initially undetected. After discovering the true contents of the bags, the investigation began.
CARGO THEFT ARREST: Authorities say they began investigating after a container that was supposed to contain $1.2 million worth of Samsungs instead arrived in Bogota full of sandbags.
They accuse a Miramar man of being behind the massive cellphone theft. https://t.co/yGVr1EKxvq
— WPLG Local 10 News (@WPLGLocal10) March 27, 2023
In the appearance of this March 27, Rivera Paz was accused of grand theft, grand theft and cargo theft. He is being assigned a public defenders law firm to represent him.
Surveillance videos of the DHL Express facility were presented to the court in which Rivera Paz is seen walking with another man towards a cargo shipping area.
In Courts, the judge set a bond of 300 thousand dollars. In the event that you are going to pay it to be released pending trial, you must demonstrate that the money for the payment is well received.
He is currently being held at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center. In the next few days there will be a hearing to analyze all the evidence, including the surveillance videos from the airport.
Eduardo Miguel Rivera Paz had already been arrested for robbery in 2018.
