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A used BMW, an iconic car dealership in Hialeah and stolen credit cards turned into a suspended license for a Broward licensed practical nurse.<\/p>\n
Showing the stately pace that medical professional discipline can take, the emergency suspension order on Soraya Tibe\u2019s license posted Tuesday, 20 months after Tibe pleaded guilty to two counts of third-degree grand theft and one count of attempting to obtain a car by trick. Tibe got sentenced to a two-year probation, which will end on July 30.<\/p>\n
Professionally, Tibe\u2019s been a licensed practical nurse since April 4, 2007, based in Sunrise and Lauderdale Lakes, with no previous professional disciplinary actions. Before the month\u2019s out, the Florida Department of Health will file an administrative complaint that will start the ball rolling toward a final punishment from the state Board of Nursing.<\/p>\n
READ MORE: Surgeon knew his gas passer wasn\u2019t qualified. The patient died. He\u2019s still licensed<\/a><\/p>\n Trying to buy a Beemer with credit cards<\/p>\n What follows comes from the arrest report by Hialeah police after the bookings of Tibe and West Miami-Dade resident Kevin Ellis, who pleaded guilty to the same charges as Tibe plus fraudulent use of identification.<\/p>\n READ MORE: Gus Machado found TV and became a Miami car sales and philanthropy giant<\/a><\/p>\n In 2023, Ellis tried and failed to buy a used 2015 BMW 328i for $12,201 online from Gus Machado Ford, now Ford of Hialeah since a February dealership sale almost four years after Machado\u2019s death. After dealership staff told Ellis he\u2019d have to buy the car in person, Ellis showed up with Tibe on Oct. 5, 2023, to 1200 W. 49th St.<\/p>\n Tibe \u201cbegan to hand two [Gus Machado employees] several physical cards to pay for the vehicle in small increments,\u201d the report said. \u201c[Ellis] began to read off credit card numbers from his cell phone to both\u201d employees.<\/p>\n When the payments were processed, the Gus Machado Ford sales manager got a phone call from a woman who said Alpine Bank sent her a notification about a $2,000 transaction at the dealership. She knew she didn\u2019t make that transaction, if for no other reason than she was at her Colorado home.<\/p>\n The sales manager called Hialeah police.<\/p>\n Police found Tibe carrying four gift cards, five credit cards and $980 cash. Ellis was carrying a bag with four credit cards that had neither Tibe nor Ellis\u2019 name, three black plastic cards with a magnetic stripe \u201ccapable of receiving track data,\u201d and some credit cards with Ellis information.<\/p>\n Once police detained Tibe and Ellis, Ellis told police they came in a U-Haul parked at the Olive Garden just west of the dealership. Police say they found a laptop with a device attached that allowed it to encode credit cards.<\/p>\n