Member of traveling crime ring robs man after he wouldn’t buy fake jewelry, Miami-Dade police say

MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. – Police arrested a man they described as a member of a traveling organized crime ring Wednesday after they mentioned he robbed a man in west Miami-Dade earlier this month.

According to a police report, 38-year-old Alexandru Eminescu, driving a rented BMW X7, pulled as much as the sufferer as he rode his bicycle on Southwest Eighth Street, close to 132nd Avenue within the county’s Tamiami neighborhood, approached him and requested him for “help with some money.”

Police wrote that one other man, listed as a co-defendant, was within the automotive with Eminescu, who resides in Spring Hill, situated north of Tampa.

After Eminescu requested the money, police wrote the sufferer supplied to assist by giving $20, police mentioned, and took out his pockets, displaying extra money.

That’s when Eminescu “attempted to swindle the victim by selling him fake jewelry,” the investigating officer wrote.

“As the victim declined the offer, the co-defendant (front passenger) became agitated, spoke in a (foreign) language and placed his hand under his shirt, as if he was armed with a firearm,” the report states.

The report doesn’t establish the second man, and it’s unclear if he has been situated or whether or not police know who he is.

Police mentioned that led the sufferer to imagine the man was armed and would shoot him if he didn’t comply.

It seems the supply of fake jewellery was one the sufferer couldn’t refuse.

Police mentioned the sufferer, in worry for his life, held out $200 in his hand, which Eminescu took, concurrently giving the sufferer the fake jewellery.

Investigators wrote that the theft was captured on surveillance cameras at a close-by retailer and that detectives have been capable of receive information on the rental SUV.

They have been then capable of establish Eminescu.

Police mentioned the sufferer was capable of establish him in a photograph lineup and, moreover, cellphone information positioned him on the crime scene.

Investigators wrote that Eminescu, a overseas nationwide, is “affiliated with a group of traveling members” of Romanian descent “alleged to be involved in organized crimes, targeting various cities in the state of Florida.”

Police mentioned they have been capable of decide that Eminescu had returned to South Florida on Wednesday and members of MDPD’s Robbery Intervention Detail arrested him in Homestead, driving the BMW.

Eminescu, who faces an armed theft cost, gave police a “self-serving statement regarding his involvement in the robbery,” police wrote.

He was being held with out bond within the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center.