MIAMI — Police officers arrested a 40-year-old woman on Thursday morning in Miami after she confessed to trying to set a Ford F-150 pickup truck on fire during a fight with her ex-boyfriend, according to police.
Surveillance video shows Angelica Obando vandalizing the Ford F-150, and she said she used a rock and a napkin that she set on fire, according to a Miami police officer’s arrest report.
“She also stated that she did it out of anger, believing she would not get in trouble because she had previously purchased the vehicle for him. However, the vehicle is not under the defendant’s name nor the ex-boyfriend’s name,” a police officer wrote, according to the report.
Shortly after 12:45 a.m., Miami police officers responded to the Coco Cafe along Northwest Seventh Street, near 17th Court, in Miami’s Little Havana neighborhood, according to a police report.
“A scene assessment revealed the Ford F-150 with scrapes or scratches all around, broken side mirrors, a broken right taillight, and a broken right rear passenger-side window,” a police officer wrote, according to the arrest report.
Obando said she had been in a relationship with the driver of the Ford F-150 for about seven years, tand he relationship had ended badly, according to the police officer’s report.
“She was upset because her ex had been stalking her by using other people to tell him her whereabouts,” a police officer wrote, according to the arrest report.
Police officers arrested Obando, also known as Angelica Odalys Obando-Mayorga, at 1:10 a.m. on Thursday at 1742 NW 7 St. after she caused more than $3,000 in damage to the Ford, according to the report.
Obando was at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center on Thursday afternoon, according to Miami-Dade inmate records. She faced charges of second-degree felony arson and criminal mischief.
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