MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. – A little less than a week after making two initial arrests, Miami-Dade police arrested a former condominium association president accused of teaming up with her daughter and daughter’s boyfriend to enrich themselves with tens of thousands of dollars worth of residents’ money.
Idoris Pedroso was taken into custody Wednesday after surrendering. The 63-year-old was the president of the Westwind Lakes Garden Homes Condominium Association, Inc. board until December, according to police.
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The condo complex is located at 6610 SW 152nd Place in the West Kendall area. Residents there, police said, pay about $214 in monthly dues.
Police arrested Idoris Pedroso’s daughter, Yasnely Pedroso, 38, and her daughter’s boyfriend, Yoel Tapanes Fernandez, 42, last Thursday.
Yasnely Pedroso, police said, had been fired by the HOA for destroying records, among other things — until her mother took the reins and hired her back as an assistant.
Police said the trio’s scheme began in 2020.
An arrest report states that Tapanes Fernandez received more than $42,000 worth of checks for maintenance work he never performed. Those checks went to an inactive company called “Yoel Maintenance LLC.”
Police said the checks were supposed to have been signed by two board members, but were instead signed only by Idoris Pedroso.
The arrest report states Yasnely Pedroso tried to get someone to fabricate an invoice to justify the $42,178 Tapanes Fernandez got from the association.
Police said that person, whose position wasn’t identified, told her “he was not going to do that” because he knew Tapanes Fernandez “did not do work around the association and he did not want to jeopardize his business.”
A new board eventually took over, police said, and told authorities there were no records or invoices on file for work performed by Tapanes Fernandez.
The arrest report states that police located Yasnely Pedroso and Tapanes Fernandez at their home on Southwest 160th Terrace on Thursday and questioned the pair.
Police wrote that Tapanes Fernandez claimed to have “painted parking bumpers, the pool and pressure cleaned throughout the association” but, yet, couldn’t remember the name of his company and didn’t have any invoices.
Authorities also said that type of work could not have cost $42,000.
In a separate interview, Yasnely Pedroso told police that her boyfriend worked for a painting company, police said. The problem with that, police said, is that he told detectives during his interview that he didn’t work for said company.
Yasnely Pedroso, detectives noted, claimed the HOA paid her more than $40,000 yearly but had no reported wages or earnings.
All three are facing charges of grand theft and organized scheme to defraud. None of the trio was listed in Miami-Dade jail records as of Wednesday afternoon.