Welcome to Arrest Stories. A twenty-six-year-old Miami woman faces fraud charges after allegedly purchasing over five hundred thousand dollars worth of luxury vehicles using false financial information. Here's what may have happened.
On November nineteenth, the Florida Department of Corrections and Miami-Dade Sheriff's Office conducted a routine compliance check at a home on Northwest Sixty-eighth Terrace in Miami-Dade. During the visit, a man on probation for possession of a firearm by a convicted felon made a comment in Creole about a Nissan Maxima in the driveway, stating "We are good as long as they do not go in that car." After a probation officer translated the Creole comment, investigators discovered additional vehicles on the property, including a twenty twenty-three Cadillac with the VIN removed.
The investigation revealed that Graciela Pinales had allegedly engaged in what authorities describe as a credit bust-out scheme spanning several months. According to police reports, Pinales purchased multiple luxury vehicles in rapid succession. On July fifteenth, she bought a twenty twenty-three Cadillac worth one hundred six thousand four hundred five dollars at a Miami Lakes dealership. Three days later on July eighteenth, she purchased both a twenty twenty-four Dodge Ram three thousand five hundred worth seventy-eight thousand two hundred fifty-three dollars and a twenty twenty-five Jeep Wagoneer worth seventy-nine thousand one hundred ninety-five dollars. The spending spree continued on October twenty-first when she bought a twenty twenty-five Chevrolet Corvette Z-zero-six worth one hundred fifty-nine thousand eighty-nine dollars.
Investigators discovered that on her credit application, Pinales claimed a monthly income of sixteen thousand eight hundred sixty-seven dollars, totaling over two hundred thousand dollars annually. However, authorities learned she had been fired in December twenty twenty-four. When questioned, Pinales told investigators she was a part owner of a jewelry company and had made a mistake on the credit application.
Pinales now faces charges including organized fraud of fifty thousand dollars or more, grand theft, and obtaining a vehicle by trick.
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