The campaign manager of the defeated Cuban influence in the Mayor of Miami -Dadd, accused of rape – AOL

Former Right Cuban Campaign Campaign, who lost an offer for Mayor of Miami-Dadd in the summer, was arrested on Thursday, accused of raping a teenager on Hyalea, often after spending him with drugs, police said.

Andy Santana, 33, was put to his home in Hyalai shortly before midnight on Wednesday and taken to the Hyalle Police Staff, where he was accused of single -minded sex with a minor’s crime.

It was transported to the correction center of the Turner Guilford Knight, where he stayed late on Thursday morning. There has not yet been a relationship, as Santana has not yet appeared before a judge.

As Santana was still in prison, according to the court records of Miami-Dad District, it was not clear immediately whether he had retained a legal counsel. Herald’s attempts to communicate with Alex Otaola’s employees were rejected, with the assistants declining comment.

Hours later, Otaola, the candidate who runs unsuccessfully for the Mayor of Miami-Dad, publishes a statement on Facebook, saying that he has no “control over the privacy” of his employees, but that “strongly” does not approve of “every illegitimate Or a morally dubious act. “

“Everyone will have to face responsibility for their own actions and prove their innocence,” he said.

Later he made a live broadcast on the YouTube channel Farándula de cuba And he said that he and the rest of his team did not know about the alleged incidents that led to the accusations. He said there was no excuse for having sexual relations with a minor.

Otaola also suggested that his employees were aware that others could try to direct them to discredit it.

“Unfortunately, it is, but it is also unfortunately that television stations, which are not interested in the political campaign today, want to turn to my political campaign with this incident,” he said.

Although the story in the Santana arrest report listed several cases of sex between the former campaign manager and a 17-year-old boy, Hyali police have only accused Santana of one of a minor sex.

“We can only load what happened in our city,” said a police spokesman in Hyalea and SGT. Jose Torres.

According to the arrest statement, the alleged victim appeared at the Hyaliah Police Headquarters on Wednesday with lean photos and video “Confirmation of his allegations”. The alleged victim told police that he had met Santana through Instagram and that during their first meeting in his car in May, Santana kissed him and naked.

Then the next day the alleged victim told the police, Santana appeared to his home and took him back to his apartment, where he convinced him to raise drugs, which made him dizzy, the teenager told the police. Santana again attacked him sexually.

According to a teenager’s statement to police, Santana has sexually attacked him at least five times a week, and sometimes the teenager told police that he stayed at Santana’s home over the weekend. But the meetings ended in September, when Santana claims he told the teenager that he was worried that their meetings would be expired or appeared on social media sites.

Police said Santana had relied on his right not to talk to the police during his arrest.

Otaola, 45-year-old, a blazing figure with a popular Spanish-language show on YouTube, is running against Miami-Dadd Mayor Daniela Levin Kava in Primary August. He finished third. Levine Cava was re -elected by 58 percent of the vote.

With a campaign focused on turning Miami-Dadd County into a “without communication”, Otaola received less than 12 percent of the vote.

That evening, Santana asked for a counting from the Ministry of Election in Miami-Dad. His request was denied as the acting received a high enough percentage of votes to avoid runoff.

Otaola and Santana have known each other for years. Even after the City Hall, the two continue to work on the popular podcast of Otaola, The living room! Ota-LaA three -hour program presented on the YouTube Channel Cubanos Por El Mundo.

The show – which was popular with the younger generation of Cubans who left the island – was essential for building Otaol’s popularity among former supporters of President Donald Trump and ultimately paved the way for his run for mayor.

Santana has been working with Otaola since January 2021 as a director of operations at Otaola Media Productions LLC, according to his LinkedIn profile. Then Santana took the roles of deputy trendy and campaign manager in April 2023, when Otaol launched her mayoral campaign in Miami-Dad.