{"id":145720,"date":"2026-02-06T05:32:19","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T05:32:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/145720\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T05:32:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T05:32:19","slug":"man-steals-up-to-2-5-million-worth-of-memory-cards-sells-them-to-pay-for-tiktok-livestreams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/145720\/","title":{"rendered":"Man steals up to $2.5 million worth of memory cards; sells them to pay for TikTok livestreams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0February 3, 2026 at 10:36 AM<\/p>\n<p>lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpand<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/RFNDMWINHFE2LCZIRLNBCEZWZY.jpg\"  width=\"1280\" height=\"720\"\/>(Miami-Dade Corrections &amp; Rehabilitation\/Google Maps) <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla.  \u2014 A 33-year-old man was arrested Monday on accusations that he stole up to $2.5 million worth of memory cards from a business he worked at and then sold the memory cards to pay for TikTok livestreams, the Miami-Dade Sheriff\u2019s Office said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/02\/03\/mdso-acusan-a-hombre-de-robar-hasta-25-millones-usd-en-tarjetas-de-memoria-y-venderlas-para-pagar-transmisiones-en-vivo-en-tiktok\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/02\/03\/mdso-acusan-a-hombre-de-robar-hasta-25-millones-usd-en-tarjetas-de-memoria-y-venderlas-para-pagar-transmisiones-en-vivo-en-tiktok\/\">Leer en espa\u00f1ol<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">According to an arrest report, Ricardo Jose Blanco Nunez, of Miami, was caught by his employer, who owns Abboud Trading Corp. in Medley, \u201crelocating\u201d a box Monday containing 50 Kingston memory cards valued at $14,750 and then \u201cconcealing\u201d the box within the warehouse.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Deputies said the owner called law enforcement and reported that from November 2025 to the present day, there has been an inventory shortage of Kingston memory cards totaling about $2.5 million.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">According to the report, a deputy met with Blanco Nunez and he confessed to stealing a total of 55 boxes since November that contained memory cards valued at $811,250.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Deputies said Blanco Nunez told them he sold the memory cards to pay for TikTok livestreams.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He also admitted to trying to steal another box Monday, but getting caught by his employer, the report stated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Blanco Nunez was arrested on a charge of grand theft of cargo valued over $50,000.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">As of Tuesday morning, Blanco Nunez was being held at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center. Online jail records listed his bond as \u201cto be set.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Amanda Batchelor\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/83776d46-011c-4018-ab.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Amanda Batchelor<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Amanda Batchelor is the Digital Executive Producer for Local10.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0February 3, 2026 at 10:36 AM lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpand(Miami-Dade Corrections &amp; Rehabilitation\/Google Maps) MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 A 33-year-old man&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":145721,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[225,227,226],"class_list":{"0":"post-145720","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hialeah","8":"tag-hialeah","9":"tag-hialeah-headlines","10":"tag-hialeah-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145720\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}