A 35-year-old woman from Las Vegas faced charges on Monday in Miami-Dade County after she was accused of stealing more than $80,000 from a man in 2024 in Miami, records show. Leer en españolDeputies arrested Cassandra Thompson, also known as Cassandra Costentine, at 10:20 p.m. on Friday at Miami International Airport on a pending Miami-Dade arrest warrant, records show.
A man had reported meeting Thompson on Dec. 11, 2024, at Gekko in Miami’s Brickell area, and welcoming her to his apartment, where she served him vodka, according to the arrest warrant. “The victim recalled feeling unwell after he was served the beverage prepared by the subject,” a police officer wrote, according to the warrant.
“He believed he lost consciousness or was so impaired that it caused him to be unresponsive.” Surveillance video provided by the man showed Thompson “taking the victim’s phone and walking into the bedroom,” a Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office detective wrote, according to the arrest warrant.The victim accused Thompson of stealing $10,000 in cash from his bedroom and of using his cell phone to steal more than $72,840 in cryptocurrency and $1,225 from Venmo, according to the warrant. Miami-Dade corrections booked Thompson shortly after 12:25 a.m. on Saturday at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center, according to inmate records.Thompson faced four charges: Third-degree grand theft, money laundering unlawful proceeds, unlawful use of a communications device, and a computer offense involving fraud.
Local 10 News Assignment Editor Carson Merlo contributed to this report. An 18-year-old man remains at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center Monday on an immigration hold, days after a Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office deputy fatally shot a 17-year-old that was with him inside a Miami Beach apartment unit, records show.Leer en españolAccording to online jail records, Valentino Nathaniel Berry was booked into TGK Friday on charges of possession of a weapon by a convicted felon, resisting an officer without violence and possession of cannabis.Miami-Dade Sheriff Rosie Cordero-Stutz confirmed that deputies were serving a search warrant Friday morning at an apartment building in the 700 block of 81st Street in Miami Beach, in connection with possession of firearms violations by a 17-year-old and an 18-year-old.Cordero-Stutz said the 17-year-old came out of a bedroom when deputies arrived, waving a gun, at which time a deputy fired at the teen, killing him.According to an arrest report, the warrant was obtained after Berry posted a story to his Instagram page showing him holding an AR-pistol in his waistband. Another animated photo showed him holding a tan and black rifle with the text, “POV: I’m a cartoon,” the report stated.A detective assigned to the case said that he believed the photo was a real picture that had a cartoon filter on it.
Another Instagram story showed two packages of marijuana covering part of a Glock handgun, the report stated. According to the report, Berry fled out of the back door of the apartment after the shooting and was taken into custody. Deputies said they found marijuana on Berry, and a loaded Glock handgun inside of a bedroom.A records check of the gun revealed that it had been reported stolen in Broward County on June 28, the report stated.
“These two subjects have extensive criminal pasts for firearms violations. They are currently on probation, they are registered gang members and are wearing ankle monitors,” Cordero-Stutz said. “Search warrants are always one of our most dangerous actions that we and all law enforcement face.”Authorities have not released the identity of the teen who was killed, however a woman named Yvonne Warner told Local 10 News that she believed the teen was her son, Darrell Young.Jail records show that Young had previously been arrested on an attempted murder charge in Florida City.
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