Saturday, May 19, 2012

Property Manager Who Allegedly Swindled Property Owner Out of $131,000 Arrested in Sweetwater, FL


 Sweetwater, FL, May 19, 2012 – The city of Sweetwater, FL reports today Sweetwater police detectives closed a white collar police case that had been ongoing since Jan. 2010 in three months.

Sweetwater police took over the case from Miami-Dade Police in Feb. when the property owner came into the station to report the suspected theft.

Rolando Perez, who lives at 14840 SW 148th Street, was arrested at 6:15 a.m. May 18, 2012 and charged with organized scheme to defraud and grand theft for stealing $130,976 from the owner of Sundance Village Apartment Complex (middle right photo) in the 11300 block of Northwest Seventh Street.

 Perez allegedly stole the money between Jan. 18, 2010 and Oct. 3, 2011, while he was employed as the property manager of Sundance Village Apartments Complex. Tenants of the complex allegedly would give Perez checks and money orders without the payee information filled in. Tenants would also allegedly give Perez cash. Perez  allegedly would deposit the cash, checks and money orders into his personal accounts.

Sweetwater detectives acquired 23 sworn and notarized statements and copies of forms of payments/receipts from past tenants showing that rent money was allegedly received by Perez but not deposited into the Sundance Apartment’s account.

 Contact:
  
Michelle Hammontree-Garcia
City of Sweetwater
Public Affairs Specialist
Cell: 786-317-2322
Office: 305-485-4539


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City Hall/Police Department
500 SW 109th Avenue
Miami, Fl 33186

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