MIAMI — A 35-year-old woman has been arrested in connection with a series of package thefts at a Miami condominium complex earlier this year, authorities said.
According to an arrest report, Vanessa Caridad-Rodriguez was taken into custody on Tuesday following an investigation into missing deliveries between Feb. 16 and Feb. 23 at the Quantum on the Bay condominium complex, located at 1900 N. Bayshore Dr., in Miami’s Edgewater neighborhood.
Residents began reporting missing packages from the building’s package room, prompting the supervisor to review surveillance footage after multiple complaints, the report states.
Investigators said video from Feb. 16 shows orange Amazon delivery bags left outside the package room because it was “full” and placed near a rear loading dock door that was malfunctioning and not properly secured.
According to the report, surveillance footage shows a white Ford pickup truck entering the loading dock area.
A woman, who Miami police later identified as Caridad-Rodriguez, exited the driver’s side while a male passenger, later identified as Jose Luis Perez, got out of the vehicle.
The report states Perez, 50, opened a rear access door and removed an orange delivery bag containing packages, placing it in the truck bed, while Caridad-Rodriguez removed additional packages. Both then left the scene in the pickup truck.
Building management told investigators neither suspect had permission to take the packages.
Caridad-Rodriguez was identified after investigators linked the vehicle to a traffic stop the same day in West Miami, where she was arrested for driving without a valid license and the truck was impounded, according to the report. Police listed Perez as the passenger during that stop.
Investigators later recovered a blonde wig from the vehicle during a search, which they said was “consistent with the wig used by the female suspect during the incident.”
A latent print analysis also matched Caridad-Rodriguez to a print recovered from a Grey Goose box found inside the vehicle, according to her arrest report.
Perez, who was arrested earlier in the investigation, admitted post-Miranda that he and Caridad-Rodriguez entered the property and removed packages “without permission,” according to the report.
He also identified her as his girlfriend at the time and said she was familiar with the building layout due to prior employment at a dental office in that same complex.
Caridad-Rodriguez is facing charges including burglary of an unoccupied structure and petit theft between $150 and $750, jail records show.
As of Wednesday, she was being held at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center, where her bond was listed as “to be set,” while Perez was being held at the Metrowest Detention Center on a $10,100 bond.
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