Medley, FLA. – Several companies, platinum profits, palladium or rhodium extracted from auto parts that thieves stole from cars in South Florida, according to detectives.
Investigators believe GMCN Scrap Metals, Inc., a company in South Florida, has made tens of millions of dollars on stolen auto parts sold on Techemet Metal Trading, a company in Texas.
The records show that federal, state and local investigators track how GMCN Scrap Metals, Inc. Purchased the stolen parts in Miami-Dad County, which ended up in the Techemet refinery in Pasadena.
The covenant auto parts that supposedly prompted Techemet to pay GMCN $ 23 million in just one year were catalytic converters, a gas emissions control device.
Investigators came up with a list of more than a dozen suspects involved in the scheme that included Gerardo Hernandez Rosada, owner of GMCN, and his son Christian Hernandez, who works at GMCN.
According to an arrest warrant, the Hernandez money laundering scheme for hiding the profits of the scheme, which is said to have participated in a network of projectile and property companies in Turks and Kaykos.
According to the detectives of the Miami-Dad County Sheriff, the suspect’s list also includes William Iskas, the owner of the Metal Zayas storage in the hyelia, a GMCN supplier.
According to an arrest warrant, the 53 -year -old Isquas also bought stolen catalytic converters from thieves in South Florida and sold them wholesale GMCN in Medley.
The suspects also include three GMCN employees, Martin Chavez, Alejandro Perera and Mario Waylant, who reported on 59 -year -old Hernandez Rosada of Hyalea and his son Hernandes, 31 years old, from Miramar.
Detectives suspected Chavez, 61, from North Miami; 25 -year -old Miami Gardens perera; and Weylant, 40, from Richmond Heights; They all participated in transactions with thieves.
Three of the other suspects lived close to the Hyaleya business: Adrian Perez, 24, Davislai Gonzalez, 36, and Gabriel Gill, 55.
The others were 35 years old, Jose Ansizar of West Little River; Pedro Vera, 31, from Gladeview; Jose Colon, 39 -year -old who lived in a motel in the upper east side of Miami; And 39 -year -old Dearon Gomez, who was homeless.
Prisoners’ records show that the corrective MPs booked Gonzalez on January 31, 2024; Ansisar on March 20, 2024; Hernandez and We lovel on August 29; Hernandez Rosada and Gill on August 30; Gomez on March 1 and Vera on Wednesday.
On Thursday afternoon, prisoners in the Miami-Dad County do not show that Zayas, Chavez, Peres, Perez and Colon were in the arrest of the corrective MPs.
Detectives asked anyone with information about this or other cases to call crime stops in Miami-Dad County 30-471-8477 to remain anonymous.
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