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July 23. A Thursday morning. A joint task force comprised of members of the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office, City of Miami Special Investigations Section, and the FBI Violent Gang Task Force executes a residential search warrant on the home of Lazaro Lesteiro-Diaz. Over the past few weeks, the 26-year-old local rapper known as “Drakula,” aka “YungLazz” has been posting videos of himself spitting verses about allegedly committing financial crimes while brandishing a Glock, stacks of cash, “a laptop screen showing multiple victims’ Personally Identifiable Information,” and, perhaps most bizarrely, a call center headset. These sets attract views not only from fans of his deft, staccato flows but also, alas for him, law enforcement. (Sample line: “I called you from a Bank of America number. Ima boof a plot.”)
Inside Lesteiro Diaz’s room, authorities seize a Glock with an extended magazine, a Drakula diamond chain (which resembles the one seen in this video), cash, a prescription bottle of Promethazine (sometimes misused in combination with codeine as “purple drank”) with the prescriber’s name scratched off, and the now-famous call center headset. In another room toward the back of the premises, two decapitated chickens lay at its threshold and festooned with what the arrest report describes as “Santeria Witch Craft” ritual paraphernalia, there is a male baby goat in a box, his neck painted orange in what police presume to be sacrificial markings. (For what it’s worth, a local Santeria expert who asked to remain anonymous said they’d never heard of such markings being used in ritual sacrifice.)…