MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. — A Miami man is facing two felony charges after sheriff’s deputies said he stole thousands of dollars worth of clothes from two Dadeland Mall stores in a matter of minutes.
Both thefts happened on April 1, authorities said.
Miami-Dade deputies said Carlos Arturo Cardozo Soto, 31, of Coconut Grove, first went into Lululemon at around 5 p.m. and put more than $700 in clothes in two Abercrombie & Fitch bags, removing the anti-shoplifting devices in the process.
Six minutes later, authorities said he went into the Alo store and put more than $2,200 worth of clothes in the same bags and walked out.
Cardozo was able to flee the mall as a deputy tried to stop him, an arrest report states.
He was taken into custody on Wednesday at his apartment on Southwest 27th Avenue.
Facing charges including grand theft, petit theft and use of an antishoplifting device, Cardozo was being held in the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center on a $6,000 bond as of Thursday morning.
But the Colombian national may not be leaving jail for a while: Records show he has an immigration hold and an unspecified out-of-state fugitive warrant.
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