Welcome to Arrest Stories. A fifty-year-old line cook stands accused of orchestrating an elaborate culinary heist, stealing three prized recipe books containing trade secrets from a popular Venezuelan restaurant before getting caught red-handed at his second job just blocks away.
Here's what may have happened.
On Tuesday, Carlos Francisco Gottberg Marquez found himself in handcuffs in Doral after what authorities describe as a calculated theft of invaluable restaurant secrets. The drama began unfolding on October twelfth when surveillance cameras at Mordisco Miami captured Gottberg Marquez removing two recipe books from the kitchen without authorization.
The restaurant, located on Forty-first Street and One Hundred Third Avenue, houses what one official called "the heart of the restaurant" in those carefully guarded cookbooks. These weren't ordinary recipe collections - they contained detailed instructions for preparing the establishment's signature meals, with officials estimating their worth at "hundreds of thousands of dollars."
Gottberg Marquez wasn't finished. On Sunday, October nineteenth, cameras again recorded him taking a third cookbook. By Monday, October twentieth, the business reported the theft to authorities, setting off a swift investigation.
The case cracked open when officers tracked down Gottberg Marquez at his second job inside the Shoma Bazaar food hall, just blocks from Mordisco Miami. There, they discovered him in possession of the stolen materials, with plans reportedly to use the recipes at another restaurant in Orlando.
Faced with the evidence, Gottberg Marquez made what authorities describe as a full confession. "You got arrested for theft of trade secrets," officers informed him during the arrest. The cooperative suspect then led police to his moped, where one stolen book was recovered, before offering to escort officers to his home.
"The other two books were in my home and offered to escort officers there to retrieve them," Gottberg Marquez reportedly told investigators, helping police recover the remaining stolen property.
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