MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 A 65-year-old convicted felon recently accused of sexually abusing a 4-year-old girl at a Lowe\u2019s in Hialeah has a criminal record going back over two decades in Miami-Dade County, records show. <\/p>\n
Hialeah police officers arrested Jose Cremades in 2002, 2012, and 2016, and Miami-Dade Sheriff\u2019s Office deputies arrested him in 2019 and 2022, according to court records. Prosecutors filed third-degree grand theft charges in all five cases. <\/p>\n
Cremades was convicted in four of the five cases and sentenced to probation, according to court records. His most recent probation ended on July 25, 2024. On Tuesday, he was back behind bars. <\/p>\n
The 4-year-old girl told her mother on Saturday that \u2033the old man who had been next to her at the Lowe\u2019s at 1650 West 37th St., had touched her\u201d after he \u201clifted her skirt,\u201d according to a police officer\u2019s arrest report. <\/p>\n
On Tuesday, during a forensic interview at the Kristi House Children\u2019s Advocacy Center, the girl said Cremades \u201cused his fingers to reach under her dress and touch … several times,\u201d a police officer wrote, according to the report. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe are doing everything we can to assist local law enforcement,\u201d a spokesperson for Lowe\u2019s wrote in a statement on Wednesday. <\/p>\n
Surveillance videos showed Cremades \u201ccrouched down\u201d at a merchandise display where the 4-year-old girl was before she ran toward her mother, and \u201cwalking behind\u201d two other girls, \u201cas they moved through the store,\u201d according to a police officer\u2019s report. <\/p>\n
The girl\u2019s mother told police officers she and her 4-year-old daughter had attended the store\u2019s kids workshop, and she was paying for a purchase at the register when her daughter left her side, according to the police report. <\/p>\n
Hialeah police officers arrested Cremades on Tuesday, and Miami-Dade prosecutors filed three new cases against him on Wednesday. Two of the cases were petit theft, and the other was for lewd and lascivious molestation. <\/p>\n
Cremades appeared before Miami-Dade County Circuit Judge Mindy S. Glazer on Wednesday. She denied him bond and ordered him to stay away from the Lowe\u2019s store in Hialeah and the victim of the lewd and lascivious molestation case. <\/p>\n
Cremades, who was born in Cuba and lives near O\u2019Quinn Park in Hialeah, was at the Metrowest Detention Center on Thursday with a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement\u2019s hold, police and inmate records show. <\/p>\n
Miami-Dade County Circuit Judge Laura A. Stuzin was presiding over the felony lewd and lascivious molestation case. County Circuit Judge Michelle Roth was presiding over the misdemeanor theft cases. <\/p>\n