MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. — A Miami-Dade man known as “Yunglazz Drakula” livestreamed himself rapping about how he scams people through identity theft, according to police. But investigators said they were watching ― and a raid of his home Thursday revealed a gun, drugs and animals used for Santería sacrifices.
The arrest of “Yunglazz Drakula” ― whose real name is Lazaro Lesteiro-Diaz ― came as the result of a joint investigation between Miami police, Miami-Dade deputies and the FBI.
And it’s not the 26-year-old’s first time in the news.
Fraud investigation
An arrest report ― which lists Lesteiro-Diaz‘s occupation as “rap-fraudster” ― first describes a June 17 video in which he‘s ”seen holding a laptop with money on it and a headset/mic on his head commonly used by fraudsters/scammers as he raps a song in Spanish."
Investigators said Lesteiro-Diaz rapped, “I called you from a Bank of America number. Ima boof a plot.”
“That means ‘I’m going to take your money...I’m going to access your bank account and (you’re) giving me your code, everything over the phone and I won’t even touch you,’” a detective with the Miami Police Department explained in the arrest report.
Then, police said on July 6, Lesteiro-Diaz livestreamed himself rapping again, displaying a gun, large amounts of cash, and a laptop.
Authorities said he then flipped the camera to show personal information belonging to “multiple victims” and described “how he commits organized fraud and spoofing schemes.”
Then came the “purple drank.”
Police said Lesteiro-Diaz flashed a bottle of the promethazine codeine cough syrup, used as an illegal drug, as he walked around his kitchen.
On Tuesday, police said he posted a video “in a bathroom and flashing multiple debit/credit/gift cards while concealing a suspected firearm that has an extended magazine.” The sink had a “wad” of cash on it.
Police raid
On Thursday, one day after a judge signed a search warrant, police, deputies and the FBI raided his home in the 11200 block of Southwest 43rd Lane in the county’s unincorporated Westwood Lakes area.
There, they said they found a gun, magazines, a “Drakula” diamond chain, a diamond watch, baby bottles with suspected “purple drank,” cash and a call center headset. But that’s not all.
In the rear of the home were “(two) dead chickens with their heads cut off,” police said.
Next to the chickens, they said, was a room “full of Cuban Santería” and “voodoo (witchcraft).”
“Law enforcement then discovered a live baby goat inside a box near the Santería (witchcraft) material,“ the arrest report states. ”The baby goat’s neck was painted in orange, which is a sign marking where the animal would get cut/slaughtered.”
Police said they were able to find a rescue organization for the goat.
“Subsequently, FBI agents discovered a video of (Lesteiro-Diaz) holding two dead chickens dangling by their feet in his hand, which are consistent with the dead chickens located in the rear of the premises,” the report states.
Police said during an interview, he admitted the items were his and said he bought the promethazine cough syrup to “cure his sickness,” also stating that “he previously attempted to commit fraud.”
They said he then invoked his right to remain silent. Police arrested him on charges of armed drug possession, organized fraud, money laundering, identity theft and animal cruelty with intent to injure or kill.
Past felony case
Back in 2020, Local 10 News reported on the arrest of Lesteiro-Diaz, then 19 and living in Hialeah, after police said he wrote threatening messages about wanting to kill random people, including gay, Black, Nicaraguan and Colombian people.
On what was then known as Twitter, authorities said he wrote, “My brain looks like the brain of a serial killer psychopath. I feel no type of pity or emotion towards hurting someone ... humans are mosquitoes in my eyes.”
After being charged with written threats to kill, court records show that he received withheld adjudication later that year. They additionally show that his probation in that case was terminated in 2022.
Rapper gets $30K bond
Meanwhile, in his latest case, records show he’s being held in the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center on a $30,000 bond.
Before he posts bond, however, he’ll have to prove any funds came from a legitimate source.
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