SOUTHWEST MIAMI-DADE, FLA. (WSVN) – Eleven people are behind bars after, Miami police say, the group of individuals committed violent crimes and carried out an elaborate scheme to steal money.
The operation was initially intended to combat violent gang crime, but authorities discovered what they described as a bank fraud call center while executing a search warrant at a rental home near Southwest 162nd Street and 100th Court in Southwest Miami-Dade.
Investigators say that during several days of surveillance of the home in late October, authorities observed “numerous associates of a violent gang known as ABK arriving … in luxury vehicles costing more than $100,000.”
With the assistance of the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office and the FBI, Miami police executed a search warrant Wednesday.
Neighbors captured cell phone video as authorities handcuffed 11 people in the front yard. Police also saw that several bags of evidence had been collected from the home.
Investigators say they found several weapons, including an assault rifle, cash, stolen credit cards and a bank fraud call center, including fake call center sounds played over a TV in the home.
According to authorities, the group of men used the fake call center to trick unsuspecting people into sharing sensitive information over the phone.
Among those taken into custody was a rapper known as D30.
A poster found in the house shows his face on a dollar bill, reading “In 30 We Trust.”
Some of the lyrics of his songs were featured in stories on 7News, among others.
Now he and his colleagues are behind bars and facing trial.
“You are free of a crime,” Judge Mindy S. Glazer told one of the arrested men.
Each of the arrested men faces a slew of charges, including organized fraud.
Most arrested individuals will have to prove that the money they use for their bail was not illegally obtained before they can leave jail.
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