MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. – A detective accused a 55-year-old woman of defrauding a 60-year-old man of more than $1.6 million in Miami-Dade County, records show.
According to an arrest warrant, Ybis Del Carmen purported to help the victim buy six foreclosure properties valued at about $842,000.
The victim “granted” Del Carmen, of Realty Golden Group, who had known since 2012, “full access” to his business account at Truist Bank, according to the June 11 arrest warrant.
Detectives talked to the property owners of the six properties in Cutler Bay, Homestead, and northeastern Miami-Dade, and they claimed to have never met Del Carmen, according to the arrest warrant.
“All contracts, property documents, and alleged mortgage transactions, made by the defendant [Del Carmen] were, in fact, fraudulent,” Detective Michael Pascual wrote, according to the arrest report.
In all, Del Carmen, of Palmetto Bay, was accused of stealing $1,655,962 ″for personal reasons," according to Pascual’s investigation, records show.
“Never the property was in sale. The owner don’t know the situation; it was all fraud ... My economic situation is complicated,” the victim said.
Sunny Isles Beach Police Department officers arrested Del Carmen and Miami-Dade correctional deputies booked her on Wednesday at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center.
Del Carmen faced charges of organized fraud and grand theft. A judge ordered her to prove that criminal proceeds were not used for her bail, records show.
Detectives asked anyone with information about this or other cases to call Miami-Dade County Crime Stoppers at 305-471-8477 to remain anonymous.
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