MIAMI – Miami-Dade prosecutors dropped fees against a 24-year-old Bay Harbor Islands woman accused of stealing a handbag from a South Miami yoga studio and happening a high-priced buying groceries spree.
Angelina Giambri instructed Local 10 News on Tuesday that she’s been vindicated and her lawyer mentioned she has forged evidence that she wasn’t the woman observed on surveillance video the usage of the sufferer’s credit card to shop for pricey handbags.
“I’m not surprised,” Giambri mentioned. “I have no attachment to the crime.”
Local 10 News was once with South Miami police when Giambri was once arrested in August.
“This first thing I have is a bright light blinding me then I have a gentleman feeling up on me all in between my thighs, my legs and one is restraining me and one is smoking a cigarette,” Giambri mentioned. “How is that professional?”
Giambri had confronted a couple of criminal fees in reference to the crime.
“She’s innocent with an ironclad alibi,” Sam Rabin, Giambri’s lawyer, mentioned. “They arrested the wrong person.”
Giambri mentioned she was once on a ship on the time and and supplied a photograph time-stamped at 11:36 a.m., the similar length she was once accused of the theft. She additionally had eating place receipts that day.
“I proved I was innocent before going to jail,” she mentioned. “(The officer’s) words were ‘I’ve been here since 8 a.m. and you are going to jail.’”
Police are protecting their paintings.
“If she says ‘I’m totally in the clear’ what do you say?” Local 10 News reporter Rosh Lowe requested South Miami police Sgt. Fernando Bosch.
“We’ll find out,” Bosch mentioned.
Police mentioned they’d gained a Miami-Dade Crime Stoppers tip that known Giambri because the suspect.
“We didn’t get it wrong,” Bosch mentioned. “We did our investigation and she was positively IDed by a witness who was face to face with her.”
Bosch added: “I saw that (surveillance) video. The times are close but it could still be her. I’m continuing my investigation. I’m waiting for additional video.”
Rabin mentioned Giambri’s fees stemmed from a “a veteran officer who rushed to judgement based upon one identification of a witness.”
Bosch driven again.
“This is not bad policing at all,” he mentioned, noting the case is “not over.”
“If it’s not her at the end of the day I’m going to find out who committed the crime,” he mentioned.
Rabin mentioned police will have to proceed to analyze.
“They should find the person who did this,” Rabin mentioned.
Giambri mentioned she needs to head on along with her lifestyles and may be very desirous about how South Miami police treated the investigation.
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