Miami auto shop owner accused of kidnapping, beating man

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A Miami body shop owner is accused of kidnapping a guy from a northwest Miami-Dade apartment, forcing him to strip to his underwear, and then beating him in August. The owner is now facing three felony charges. According to the police, he then got thousands of dollars from the man.

Francisco Antonio Ramos Morales, 34, of Hialeah, was taken into custody by Miami-Dade police on suspicion of kidnapping, armed burglary, false detention, and misdemeanor violence on Wednesday. Worldwide Car Connect, which is situated at 680 NW 71st St. in Miami’s Liberty City district, is owned by him, according to an arrest record.

According to the complaint, surveillance footage from August 3 shows Ramos Morales tugging up his shirt as he enters the victim’s apartment in the 3500 block of Northwest 79th Street, just east of Hialeah. According to the complaint, on August 3, when Ramos Morales arrived at the victim’s apartment in the 3500 block of Northwest 79th Street, just east of Hialeah, he lifted up his shirt to reveal a revolver and threatened to come to his car.

According to authorities, Ramos Morales ordered an unnamed guy to exit the car, made the victim sit in the back seat, and then turned on the rear child lock. This started an odyssey in which the victim would be driven to several different places to be beaten, according to the police. The report stated that 1100 NW 71st St. was one of those sites, directly across from Miami Northwestern High School.

Police claimed that after instructing the victim to “undress himself until he was wearing only his underwear,” Ramos Morales repeatedly hit him in the face. Ramos Morales allegedly drove the victim to his body shop where he continued to beat him, even shattering a glass bottle on his forehead, until the man needed stitches, according to the report. Authorities reported that Ramos Morales was accompanied by another individual. According to the report, the victim was forced to drive with the other man to a Broward County location in order to pick up another person.

Ramos Morales halted the car on the side of the road on the way back to Miami, hit the victim in the face many times, and had them go into the car’s trunk and hatchback, according to the complaint. “.”(Ramos Morales) then took a car to the victim’s home. Ramos and the second man, according to the authorities, went inside to find the victim’s money. “When they were unable to locate it, Ramos Morales returned to the car and opened the trunk/hatchback door, revealing the victim lying in a fetal position and only wearing his underwear,” the report reads.The victim was given permission by Ramos Morales to get out of the car and put on his shorts.

Ramos Morales and the other man took $6,000 in US dollars from beneath the victim’s bed while they were inside the residence, using force and a pistol. Ramos Morales instructed the second man to take the victim to an Airbnb at 112 NE 71st St. in Miami’s Little Haiti neighborhood when they drove back to the body shop, according to the police.

According to authorities, the other man at the Airbnb bound him to a chair. The other male, who has not been named, was taken into prison the next morning, according to the police. Detectives witnessed Ramos Morales depart the body shop and enter an Acura on Wednesday, according to the report. Detectives witnessed Ramos Morales depart the body shop and enter an Acura on Wednesday, according to the report. On the Airport Expressway, just east of Okeechobee Road, they would pursue him and stop him.

Ramos Morales reportedly informed police that he “(did) not want to speak with detectives.” Neither a motivation nor an explanation of how or whether he knew the alleged victim are given in the arrest report. According to online records, Ramos Morales was being held at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center without bond as of Thursday afternoon.

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