Ex-Accounting Assistant For Miami-Area Condo Association Gets Bagged By Newly-Created Special Police Unit On Grand Theft Charge For Allegedly Filching $148K In HOA Maintenance Fees

In Miami-Dade County, Florida The Real Deal (South Florida) reports:

• Miami-Dade police officers arrested a former accounting assistant accused of stealing nearly $150,000 from a condo association in Kendall.
  
  Police charged Leslie Navarro with first-degree grand theft and organized crime to defraud more than $50,000 after they say she stole $148,000 from a Hammocks condo association in less than a year, according to the Miami Herald.
  
  In late 2014, Navarro created a company called Hammocks Community Association Properties LLC, police told the newspaper. The real company that manages the Kendall residential community is called Hammocks Community Association Incorporated. She then opened a bank account in her company’s name and deposited maintenance payments from condo owners, which Navarro then allegedly used on shopping sprees at department stores, supermarkets and toy stores, according to the Herald.

Source: Miami-Dade cracks down on condo association fraud (Former accounting assistant is accused of stealing maintenance fees from local association).

For the underlying story, see Miami Herald: Miami-Dade launches first blow in fight against condominium fraud:

• [L]eslie Navarro, accused of stealing $148,000 from the Hammocks proprietors’ association, a popular residential area in Kendall, was arrested [] by a newly created special police unit [to fight condominium fraud].