A 58-year-old Miramar man who owns a Pembroke Pines aviation-parts company is back in federal custody after a judge revoked his bond earlier this month, with prosecutors alleging he kept defrauding investors and forging military purchase orders even while he was out on release. Alain R. Ruiz, owner of Premier Aviation Sales, Inc., has been held at Broward Main Jail since a Nov. 4 hearing, following his original arrest in March on charges tied to alleged investor fraud and fabricated military purchase orders.
According to the South Florida Sun Sentinel, Ruiz was first arrested in March 2026 after a criminal complaint was filed against him in South Florida federal court, and he was later released on bond. A grand jury indicted him on 12 counts in September, charging him with aircraft-parts fraud, conspiracy to commit wire fraud, wire fraud, and criminal monetary transactions, reporter Angie DiMichele writes. The government filed a motion on Oct. 30 seeking to revoke his pretrial release and obtain an arrest warrant, alleging he had committed additional aircraft-parts fraud and wire fraud while free on bond. A judge granted that request on Nov. 4, and Ruiz was at Broward Main Jail under a U.S. Marshals Service hold on Tuesday night, Nov. 10.
Fake Military Orders From Chile and Ecuador
Prosecutors allege Ruiz used Premier’s apparent legitimacy as a federal contractor to convince investors and commercial partners the company was stable and government-backed, per the Sun Sentinel’s reporting. HigherGov’s company profile says the Pembroke Pines firm was founded in February 2019 and federally registered in March 2020. The indictment alleges Ruiz falsely represented that Premier had millions of dollars in active Department of Defense contracts and active aviation-parts supply deals with Chile, Ecuador, Argentina, and Venezuela, when in fact some of those international deals involved no real contracts or relied on canceled or fabricated purchase orders.
One example cited in the indictment, as reported by the Sun Sentinel, involves a purchase order purportedly issued in October 2023 by the Chilean Air Force worth $345,000 for a Northrop F-5 Tiger II air-conditioning unit. Investigators say the Chilean Air Force had actually canceled that order months earlier and never issued the purchase order at all. A separate set of purported Ecuadorean military purchase orders covering aircraft tires and helicopter blades was later confirmed not to exist, according to the same reporting.
Forged Certifications and a Parallel Company
Investigators contend Ruiz used fraudulent FAA Form 8130-3 airworthiness tags, forged documents, and fabricated parts-traceability records to induce victims to wire money, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida. Those airworthiness tags are meant to verify that aircraft parts are safe and fit to be installed. Prosecutors say the indictment alleges Ruiz sold aircraft parts using false airworthiness documentation attributed to a third party and later used a forged manufacturer trace, per the Sun Sentinel’s account. As early as November 2021, he allegedly sold or offered to sell aircraft parts using false FAA documents that misrepresented the parts’ airworthiness, identity, origin, condition, and approval status…