Three men are facing charges after authorities said they broke into a southwest Miami-Dade home while a teen was alone inside and stole nearly $360,000 in cash.<\/p>\n
The incident happened a little after 1 p.m. Tuesday at a home in the area of Southwest 157th Avenue and Southwest 181st Terrace.<\/p>\n
According to arrest reports, the 14-year-old was home alone when the three suspects arrived, jumped over a cement fence and entered the backyard.<\/p>\n
The suspects tried to pry open a window but were unsuccessful, then used a screwdriver to pry open the French doors, the reports said.<\/p>\n
Once inside, they ransacked a bedroom and stole nearly $360,000 in cash, the reports said.<\/p>\n
Family members said the boy heard the men inside the house, locked himself in his room and called his parents.<\/p>\n
Video from a nearby home showed a vehicle parked outside the home around the time of the incident.<\/p>\n
A Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office aviation unit responded and the suspects were seen fleeing the home in a SUV, the reports said.<\/p>\n
The aviation unit followed until the car was stopped by authorities on the ground and the three men were taken into custody.<\/p>\n
The suspects – Antonio Mesa and Leonel A. Ramirez, both 47, and 49-year-old Pablo Arrecha-Valeta – were arrested on charges including burglary of an occupied dwelling, grand theft, and criminal mischief, the reports said.<\/p>\n
Mesa and Ramirez were also charged with possession of burglary tools.<\/p>\n
The reports said Ramirez refused to speak with investigators but Arrecha-Valeta and Mesa gave verbal and written statements implicating their involvement in the crime.<\/p>\n
Detectives have not said if the men know the family or if they specifically targeted the home for the money.<\/p>\n
All three appeared before a judge on Wednesday, who ordered them held without bond. Arrecha-Valeta and Ramirez also have immigration holds, records showed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three men are facing charges after authorities said they broke into a southwest Miami-Dade home while a teen…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":341704,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124,373],"class_list":["post-341703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-miami-dade-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341703","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=341703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341703\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/341704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}