Police: Man arrested in downtown Miami after woman falls for pop-up scam in Key Biscayne

MIAMI — Police officers arrested Wilmer Vasquez in downtown Miami, more than four months after a woman reported that she was defrauded out of $20,000 in Key Biscayne, records show.

Miami police officers arrested Vasquez, 34, at 10 p.m. along Northwest North River Drive, near Fifth Street, after a National Crime Information Center database “felony vehicle alert,” according to a police report.

Vasquez, also known as Wilmer Vasqueztribuiani, was “sitting inside the vehicle involved” in the fraud that the victim reported on Jan. 29, in Key Biscayne, a police officer wrote, according to an arrest report…

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