MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. – Spencer Manosalva’s arrest record in Miami-Dade County keeps getting longer and the charges keep getting worse, court records show.
This time, his former live-in girlfriend reported Manosalva, 30, was to blame for the swelling to her head, bite marks on her fingers, lacerations on her lip, and bleeding from her nose after an attack in Cutler Bay, according to a police arrest report.
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They were arguing and when she tried to leave Manosalva grabbed her neck, squeezed it until she fainted, and hit her when she woke up before he grabbed her again by the neck and threw her onto a mirror, the victim said, according to the report.
Officer Marcelo Carvajal arrested Manosalva on Friday night, and correctional officers booked him at about 4:25 a.m., on Saturday, at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center. He remained there without bond on Monday morning, records show.
Manosalva was facing charges of kidnapping, strong-arm robbery, domestic battery by strangulation, and battery, for the Nov. 27 attack. He had been accused of domestic violence before. Police officers arrested him for battery on Sept. 4, but prosecutors dropped the case, court records show.
Manosalva had also been accused of strong-arm robbery before in 2018 and the case was closed in 2021. Records show he was convicted and sentenced to probation, which he was then accused of violating in 2020.
Police officers arrested him for robbery by sudden snatching on Feb. 3, 2015, and for carrying a concealed firearm without having a valid license and resisting arrest on May 1, 2012.
Manosalva’s record also signals regular marijuana use for years. He was arrested 10 times for possession from 2011, when he was 17, to 2019, when he was 25, in Miami-Dade County, records show.
Eight of the marijuana cases were with MDPD in May 2011; June 2014; October 2014; November 2014; August 2015; August 2017; May 2018, and January 2019. The other two were in 2016 with the Miami Dade Schools Police Department and the Florida Highway Patrol.
Most of his cases were dropped. The Florida Department of Corrections doesn’t consider Manosalva a convicted felon. That may change this year. His arraignment for the new case is at 9:15 a.m., on March 22. Miami-Dade County Circuit Judge Teresa Mary Pooler is presiding over the new case.
Detectives were asking anyone with information about this or other cases to call Miami-Dade County Crime Stoppers at 305-471-8477.