{"id":59178,"date":"2014-12-08T17:16:13","date_gmt":"2014-12-08T17:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/?p=59178"},"modified":"2014-12-08T17:16:13","modified_gmt":"2014-12-08T17:16:13","slug":"former-beauty-queen-accused-of-embezzlement-in-miami","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2014\/12\/08\/former-beauty-queen-accused-of-embezzlement-in-miami\/","title":{"rendered":"Former beauty queen accused of embezzlement in Miami"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> A Dominican former contestant in the Miss World pageant, 23-year old Sally Aponte Tejeda is facing bank and credit card fraud charges in Florida, together with 20-year old Gabriel Perfecto Salcedo, 22-year old Allen David Salcedo and 28-year old Jerry Tejeda. The four Miami residents were arrested during an investigation by the Coral Gables Police Department, the United States Secret Service and the Attorney General&#8217;s Office of Statewide Prosecution. They face sentences of more than 40 years in prison if convicted on all charges. <\/p>\n<p> Detectives say that the group had made bank withdrawals and then claimed that unauthorized persons had removed the money from their accounts. They are also accused of cloning credit cards. <\/p>\n<p> The affected banks are First Bank Florida, Coconut Grove Bank, Total Bank, JP Morgan Chase. The fraud is said to total US$100,000.<\/p>\n<p> According to an update in Diario Libre, Aponte Tejeda has been released from jail. <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"s5XE4fN2Cm\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/miami.cbslocal.com\/2014\/12\/04\/miami-residents-arrested-for-alleged-bank-fraud\/\">Miami Residents Arrested For Alleged Bank Fraud<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe title=\"&#8220;Miami Residents Arrested For Alleged Bank Fraud&#8221; &#8212; CBS Miami\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" src=\"https:\/\/miami.cbslocal.com\/2014\/12\/04\/miami-residents-arrested-for-alleged-bank-fraud\/embed\/#?secret=s5XE4fN2Cm\" data-secret=\"s5XE4fN2Cm\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p> http:\/\/www.diariolibre.com\/noticias\/2014\/12\/06\/i915031_libertad-miss-mundo-repblica-dominicana-acusada-miami.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Dominican former contestant in the Miss World pageant, 23-year old Sally Aponte Tejeda is facing bank and credit card fraud charges in Florida, together with 20-year old Gabriel Perfecto Salcedo, 22-year old Allen David Salcedo and 28-year old Jerry Tejeda. The four Miami residents were arrested during an investigation by the Coral Gables Police &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2014\/12\/08\/former-beauty-queen-accused-of-embezzlement-in-miami\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[233,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59178"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}