Miami-Dade police say a 58-year-old man stole several checks from the restaurant where he worked as a cook and cashed them for more than $6,000.
Luis Alberto Milian, from Miami, is being charged with grand theft, planned scheme to defraud, and writing a fake check or instrument.
The victim told police that Milian didn’t show up to work at the café at 1657 NW 79th Ave. in Doral on July 26 and didn’t answer the phone when his boss called several times, according to Milian’s arrest report.
Police said the victim was in his office at work on August 1 and took out his business checkbook, which he kept in a desk box. When he looked through it, he saw that several checks were missing.
That’s what the report says happened: the victim went to the bank right away to ask about the missing checks and found that Milian had cashed all but one of them illegally.
The police say that the checks were cashed for a total of $6,300. Police said that a guy named Ruben Marin, 60, cashed the other check, but he is still on the run.
The report says that the victim got copies of the checks and called the cops.
Police said that their investigations led them to find that the checks were cashed at a business called Presidente Check Cashing.
The report says that detectives got surveillance video from the business that showed both defendants cashing the checks. Milian was caught at his home on Monday. He is a Cuban native.
The police said he gave them a written statement.
Milian was being held at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center on Tuesday afternoon because he did not have a $15,000 bond.