MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. – A 14-year-old girl and a 14-year-old boy were among the four suspects arrested during a recent undercover operation in Miami-Dade County, according to deputies.
Surveillance video at a CVS on Tuesday in South Miami Heights shows the teenage girl had climbed over the pharmacy’s counter to search the shelves of prescription medications, according to deputies.
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A detective later saw the two teens who are cousins arrive together at a Walgreens in West Perrine in a gray Dodge Durango that the boy was driving, according to the arrest reports in the case.
Records show detectives believe the teens were after promethazine with codeine, a prescription medication used to temporarily relieve upper respiratory symptoms that is also an ingredient of “purple drank,” a recreational drug also known as “Lean” or “Sizzurp.”
According to Detective Luis Sierra, a spokesman for the Miami-Dade County Sheriff’s Office, the other two suspects arrested during the undercover operation were Yordan Pratspiloto and Jorge Hitchman-Alonso, a convicted felon.
Detectives caught Hitchman, 62, with a shopping cart carrying two electric pressure washer machines worth about $350 that he had not paid for after walking out of a Home Depot in South Miami Heights, according to the deputies’ arrest report.
Deputies also accused Pratspiloto, 42, of stealing about $84 in items from Burlington and over $405 from Ross in Cutler Bay; and about $150 in items from Burlington in Kendall, according to deputies.
In all, Pratspiloto’s alleged crime spree on Tuesday involved him hiding items worth more than $645 in the waistband of his shorts at the three stores, according to the deputies’ arrest report.
In 2023, Pratspiloto was among the trio who stole about $1,000 in women’s shoes from Burlington in Doral, records show.