MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. — “Family over everything,” Vilma Vneshta wrote on Facebook, along with a picture of her only son. It’s a value that prosecutors believe was behind the 42-year-old Albanian-American mother’s alleged crimes.
Vneshta was behind bars on Wednesday afternoon without bond. She was accused of helping to hide her 20-year-old son, a New Jersey State Police fugitive, in Miami-Dade County, records show.
In weeks, Vneshta went from a condo in Sunny Isles Beach to being behind bars on charges related to a fatal street racing case that remained under investigation in Jersey’s Middlesex County, records show.
ARREST AND EXTRADITION
Miami-Dade County court records list the North Miami Police Department as the agency behind the arrests of Veneshta and her son, Alvi Limani, a New Yorker, on July 17.
Miami-Dade correctional deputies booked them both at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center. Limani was wearing a neck brace. There was an out-of-state warrant for his arrest, records show.
Miami-Dade County Circuit Judge Mindy Glazer found probable cause on July 18 after the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office fugitive warrant section notified the court that Vneshta was also wanted over a July 1 felony in Homdel, a town in New Jersey’s Monmouth County.
The NJSP released a statement on July 23 reporting Limani had “fled to Miami in an attempt to leave the country with his mother.” A witness shared a 40-second video on TikTok showing them with foot chains.
“When I arrived in New York, I saw all of this police,” the TikTok user wrote in Spanish. “When they left the plane, they were waiting for them.”
Records show the Middlesex County Correctional Center booked Limani and Vneshta on Aug. 6 after their extradition from Miami-Dade County. The Middlesex County District Attorney’s Office filed charges against them.
THE FATAL CRASH
Limani’s charges were related to a fatal crash on June 29 in New Jersey’s Woodbridge Township while he was driving a BMW X3, and racing Jeter Ogando, who was driving a BMW M5, according to the NJSP.
Shortly before 7:05 p.m., Limani and Ogando, 23, were traveling southbound on Garden State Parkway when the BMW X3 collided with a Ford sports utility vehicle, and the BMW M5 before it ran off the road, struck several trees, and overturned, according to NJSP.
Detectives described the three passengers who were traveling with Limani in the BMW X3 as Albion Hysenaj, Emily Harrington, and a 21-year-old victim, all from New York City’s Staten Island.
After they were both ejected from the BMW X3, Hysenaj, 20, died at the Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, and the 21-year-old passenger was treated for serious injuries, according to the NJSP.
Limani, who had a suspended driver’s license, and Harrington, 19, the passenger who was not ejected from the BMW X3, fled the scene of the crash, according to NJSP.
As detectives continued to piece together the cases, they asked anyone with information to call the NJSP’s Troop “D” Holmdel Station Detective Bureau at 732-441-4500 and select Extension 7426.
THE CHARGES
Vneshta was denied bond on a charge of hindering apprehension or prosecution, and Limani was denied bond on charges of aggravated manslaughter and evidence tampering.
Vneshta also faced a contempt of court charge. Harrington faced charges of third-degree hindering, fourth-degree obstruction, and fourth-degree conspiracy to endanger another.
Ogando, of Perth Amboy, N.J., faced charges of second-degree vehicular homicide, third-degree endangering another, and fourth-degree assault by auto, records show.
Limani faced 13 more charges: Causing serious or bodily injury to another person through the reckless operation of a motor vehicle, obstruction of justice, vehicular homicide, knowingly leaving the scene of an accident resulting in death, knowingly leaving the scene of an accident resulting in serious bodily injury, causing death while driving with a suspended license, causing injury while driving with a suspended license, fourth-degree assault by auto, third-degree hindring, two counts of third-degree endangering an injured victim, and two counts of third-degree endangering
Local 10 News Senior Assignment Editor Frine Gomez contributed to this report.
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