FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — About a week before Christmas, Veanitta Lenon shared a post on Facebook exclaiming that her priorities were God, work, family, and “living comfortably.”
Lenon, 37, was under investigation in Fort Lauderdale after a 15-year-old boy told detectives that he had found his father dead a day after Thanksgiving.
“Satan gets busy but you gotta know when hes working so you can can let God handle up on youre behalf,” Lenon wrote on Facebook in December, records show.
It looks like the strategy failed for the convicted felon who stands 4 feet, 11 inches tall and was at the Paul Rein Detention Facility on Wednesday afternoon in Pompano Beach.
The murder victim, Jason Bloomfield, an avid Miami Dolphins fan, vanished for more than five days before his son and mother found him dead after Thanksgiving and called 911, records show. He was 46.
During the murder investigation, records show detectives learned that Bloomfield’s neighbors in Fort Lauderdale heard six gunshots on Nov. 23.
Detectives later identified the shooter as Lenon, who was born in Detroit and had lived in Miami-Dade and Broward counties, records show.
Lenon shot Bloomfield in the living room, dragged his body into a small bedroom, moved a couch to block the door, and used Clorox, rags, and a mop to clean up his blood, according to a detective’s report in April.
A Burger King manager told detectives that Bloomfield vanished after not showing up to work as scheduled on Nov. 24, according to the detective’s report.
On Nov. 29, Bloomfield’s body was “in the decomposing stages” when Lenon arrived at the crime scene in his silver BMW and started “fake crying, with no tears,” a police officer wrote, according to the arrest warrant.
Detectives reported Lenon’s trail of lies included telling neighbors that her friend had fired the gunshots nearby, and telling relatives that she and her boyfriend had broken up because he was cheating on her with a problematic ex-girlfriend, records show.
Detectives learned the couple was going to have to move out of the apartment, and Bloomfield and Lenon were struggling financially, records show.
After the investigation, detectives reported that all of the evidence, including cell phone and GPS records, pointed to Lenon, who had used Bloomfield’s phone to access his bank account and complete a Zelle transfer, according to an arrest warrant.
Broward County court records show that after a county circuit judge signed a 43-page warrant for Lenon’s arrest, a patrol officer recognized her and arrested her on May 2 in Fort Lauderdale.
Court records also show that prosecutors filed a career criminal felony case against her on May 5.
Lenon’s arraignment on charges of murder with a firearm and using the personal identification information of a deceased person for fraud was on May 28, according to court records. Lenon pleaded not guilty to the charges, was denied bond, and was awaiting trial.
Local 10 News Assignment Editor Joyce Grace Ortega contributed to this report.
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