{"id":216435,"date":"2026-04-02T19:28:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T19:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/216435\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T19:28:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T19:28:09","slug":"falso-vendedor-de-t-mobile-estafo-a-adulto-mayor-en-medley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/216435\/","title":{"rendered":"Falso vendedor de T-Mobile estaf\u00f3 a adulto mayor en Medley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0April 2, 2026 at 2:45 PM<\/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\/04\/1775158089_165_M54E4FV7SVBUJNCWTA3WMFCNZ4.jpg\"  width=\"815\" height=\"458\"\/>Photo Brandon Tabares-Beltran (MDCR\/Copyright 2026 Google) <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MEDLEY, Fla.  \u2014 Medley police arrested a man they said posed as a wireless company representative and stole from a senior working at a warehouse in the town.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Investigators said 29-year-old restaurant server Brandon Tabares-Beltran pretended to be T-Mobile salesman \u201cPedro\u201d and walked into Interport International Logistics, located at 8580 NW 72nd St., on Sept. 2 and found an unwitting victim.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police said \u201cPedro\u201d gained the trust of a 76-year-old man at the business and sold him a cellphone and a router.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Six days later, Tabares-Beltran came back to \u201cconnect\u201d the devices, claiming \u201che needed access to the business\u2019s Wi-Fi and to the victim\u2019s laptop in order to complete the setup,\u201d an arrest report from the Medley Police Department states.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cThrough deception, (Tabares-Beltran) obtained access to the victim\u2019s laptop and subsequently accessed (his) online banking account. The victim had his banking passwords saved on the bank\u2019s login page,\u201d the report states. \u201cWithout the victim\u2019s knowledge or consent, (Tabares-Beltran) initiated three separate Zelle transfers of $500 each, totaling $1,500, to an account associated with (himself).\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Authorities said Tabares-Beltran also asked for the victim\u2019s driver\u2019s license and bank card information; he then wrote down the name \u201cPedro\u201d and gave the victim a bogus phone number.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police said they went to Tabares-Beltran\u2019s home on Southwest 24th Street in Miami-Dade\u2019s Westchester area on Wednesday to arrest him on charges of elderly exploitation, identity theft, grand theft and offenses against computer users.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">As of Thursday morning, the Colombian national\u2019s bond was listed as \u201cto be set\u201d in county jail records. He was being held at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center.<\/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=\"Chris Gothner\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/3be3b5ed-fb4b-43ce-8b.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Chris Gothner <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Chris Gothner joined the Local 10 News team in 2022 as a Digital Journalist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0April 2, 2026 at 2:45 PM lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpandPhoto Brandon Tabares-Beltran (MDCR\/Copyright 2026 Google) MEDLEY, Fla. \u2014 Medley police arrested&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":216137,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[225,227,226],"class_list":["post-216435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hialeah","tag-hialeah","tag-hialeah-headlines","tag-hialeah-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216435","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=216435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}