MIAMI — A raid at an apartment in Miami’s Liberty City neighborhood on Tuesday revealed rooms full of specialized fraud equipment and extensive personal data belonging to dozens of victims, according to police.
Miami police took three people into custody on multiple felony charges.
An arrest report states that officers went to the apartment at 5850 NW 15th Ave. at 2:30 p.m.; a judge had signed a search warrant for the location on Friday regarding a Miami Gardens police human trafficking investigation into resident Malique Shamar Newberry, who was arrested in December in a sex trafficking case.
Police said Newberry, 24, exited the home after police arrived and officers took him into custody.
Two other residents, Kathleen Emem, 38, and Master Myles Jackson, 24, “refused to exit the residence and then went back inside and slammed the door,” the report states.
A SWAT team went inside and removed both of them “after about a five-to-seven-minute standoff,” police said.
Inside, they said they discovered a “residence (that) was converted into an organized fraud operation.”
Police said a search revealed one room with a purple gun, two credit card skimmers, multiple credit cards in Jackson’s name and five credit and debit cards in a specific victim’s name.
Another room had a stolen Glock, “hundreds of blank checks,” multiple blank credit and debit cards, a printer and several electronics, including laptops and cellphones, police said.
Authorities said there were also pieces of mail in Jackson and Newberry’s name ― including those pertaining to their criminal cases ― and more than 15 checks written in the name of businesses and victims, totaling more than $38,000.
Miami Gardens police and a U.S. Secret Service agent later questioned the trio, who authorities said “did not have any reasonable explanation” for what cops found inside the home.
Police said Newberry claimed both guns belonged to him and said the home “belongs to Jackson and that he does not know anything about fraud.”
Emem, according to the report, told police she is a social worker. Meanwhile, police said Jackson refused to speak.
Police arrested all three on charges of organized fraud, using a firearm in the commission of a felony, identity theft and grand theft of a firearm.
All three were being held in the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center as of Wednesday morning, records show.
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