Two men who were taken into custody after they allegedly followed staffers from the Colombian national soccer team in Fort Lauderdale have criminal histories related to burglaries and robberies, according to police records.<\/p>\n
A Fort Lauderdale Police report released on Tuesday gives new details on the incident that happened Nov. 13, when a 37-year-old staffer had gone to the Galleria Mall with another team staffer to purchase iPhones.<\/p>\n
They left the mall and were driving to an urgent care on N. Federal Highway so one of them could get their knee checked out when they noticed a black SUV was following them, the report said.<\/p>\n
When they arrived at the urgent care they saw the SUV park in a spot and called police.<\/p>\n
Officers responded and found three men inside the SUV which had a tag that expired in June, the report said.<\/p>\n
One passenger gave officers a Colombian ID card but police could find no records for the name on the card, the report said.<\/p>\n
A fingerprint scanner identified him as 30-year-old Edison Fonseca Montana. The other passenger was identified as 52-year-old Juan Cruz Rodriguez.<\/p>\n
The three said they were there to meet a friend but their story changed many times, and officers determined all three have a criminal history of burglaries and robberies in Miami-Dade and Broward, the report said.<\/p>\n
Inside the vehicle officers found black gloves under seats, latex gloves, and a black duffel bag containing more gloves, black tape and screwdrivers, the report said.<\/p>\n
A Border Patrol agent responded and determined Montana and Cruz Rodriguez had violated their visa requirements, and they were taken to Border Patrol headquarters, the report said.<\/p>\n
The driver of the SUV was released while the SUV was impounded for the expired tag.<\/p>\n
The Colombian soccer team played New Zealand in a friendly match on Sunday at Chase Stadium in Fort Lauderdale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two men who were taken into custody after they allegedly followed staffers from the Colombian national soccer team…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51961,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-51960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51960","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=51960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}