HOLLYWOOD, Fla. – The ex-boyfriend of former Miami-Dade School Board Vice Chair Lubby Navarro used to be considered one of numerous other people prosecutors mentioned benefitted from her lavish private spending on a district credit card, resulting in her arrest Thursday.
While he hasn’t been charged within the case, he had little or no to mention when Local 10 News confirmed up at his industry Friday.
Read extra main points — together with the whole arrest warrant — right here.
Prosecutors allege {that a} portion of goods received in Navarro’s 2022 spending spree ended up in Broward County, at the smoothie and juice bar owned through her then-boyfriend, who Local 10 News has realized is David Mor.
Records display Mor owns Shook Smoothies & Juices at 2613 Stirling Road in Hollywood.
“A lot of the stuff here belongs to the taxpayers of Miami-Dade County,” Local 10 News reporter Jeff Weinsier reminded Mor when he stopped through Shook on Friday.
Items purchased on Navarro’s district credit card, consistent with a warrant, integrated a industrial fridge, two wine chillers, an coffee system, ninja blenders, a chest freezer, faux turf, an Android cellular phone, a 40-inch TV, wine glasses, an outside desk and chairs, mulch and shelving.
Mor didn’t wish to talk to Weinsier about any of it.
“Go and ask the police, not me,” he advised Weinsier.
Weinsier responded, “Go and ask the police? I’d rather ask you, because you’re the one benefitting from it.”
Weinsier additionally requested: “You never asked her (Navarro) where the money was coming from to buy this stuff?”
Mor remained silent.
“Why won’t you talk to me?” Weinsier requested him.
“What do you want?” Mor responded. “Go ask her.”
“You benefitted from stuff she put on her credit card,” Weinsier mentioned. “What do I want from you? Don’t you owe the taxpayers in Miami-Dade County an explanation?”
“I don’t say nothing,” Mor mentioned.
The warrant states that Navarro, 49, additionally expensed $900 in groceries for Mor’s circle of relatives, rented them a automobile and acquired tickets to Walt Disney World and Universal Studios Florida — and paid for inns.
Investigators have been at Shook in July and Mor cooperated with them, claiming a friendship with Navarro changed into a temporary romantic dating. He referred to as it off for non secular causes.
The warrant states Navarro used her school-issued credit card to shop for Apple AirTag trackers to position on Mor’s automobile and two synthetic silicone being pregnant bellies, with cotton filling, with the intention to trick Mor into considering she used to be pregnant when he broke up along with her.
“Who knows about it, knows about it,” Mor advised Local 10 News, in regards to the purchases.
“Whoever knows about it, knows about it?” Weinsier requested. “The money is supposed to be used for education.”
Mor requested Weinsier to go away the shop.
“Nothing to say?” Weinsier requested.
While Mor wouldn’t say if he knew the place the cash used to be coming from, will he get to stay the alleged ill-gotten goods?
There’s no solution at the moment.
The Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office referred Local 10 News to the county’s Office of the Inspector General Friday, who then referred us again to the SAO.
After a bond aid, Navarro gave the impression set to go away prison Friday as she awaits trial.
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