MIAMI – A convicted felon who owns Rich Dolla Management and Promotions appeared in Miami-Dade County courtroom on Thursday accused of human trafficking.
Philbrine “Dolla” Bell stood earlier than County Circuit Choose Ariel Rodriguez who granted prosecutors’ request for his pre-trial detention.
Rodriguez ordered Bell, 36, to avoid the victims and have “no direct or oblique contact.” Bell mentioned he didn’t know who they had been.
Based on an arrest report, deputies described Bell’s occupation as a “pimp” and arrested him at about 2 p.m., on Wednesday at Southwest 117 Avenue and 162 Avenue in Miami-Dade.
The intersection deputies reported is steps away from The WoodSpring Suites Miami Southwest, a 3-star long-stay lodge the place victims instructed detectives Bell, 36, sexually exploited them, information present.
Miami-Dade County Circuit Choose Lody Jean issued two arrest warrants on March 4 for Bell and his co-conspirator, Liliannet “Lili″ Betancourt, after detectives’ cited an investigation from April 2023 to Feb. 10.
Data present Miami-Dade correctional deputies booked Bell, of South Miami Heights, at 7:40 p.m., on the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Heart.
Betancourt, 32, of Hialeah, was already there behind bars. Deputies arrested her on Tuesday on the Broward County foremost jail in Fort Lauderdale and she or he appeared in courtroom on Wednesday, information present.
Deputies’ report on Bell’s arrest lists his cellphone quantity with a Broward space code and his major residence as a four-bedroom home in South Miami Heights owned by a person and a girl who don’t share his final identify.
Miami-Dade deputies had been acquainted with Bell. When he was 24 years old, he was armed with a revolver once they arrested him for the tried homicide of a police officer after an armed theft at a High quality Inn on U.S.-1, close to Southwest 144 Avenue. His 22-year-old co-conspirator used a baby to defend himself throughout a standoff, police mentioned.
According to the Florida Division of Corrections, just a few weeks after his twenty sixth birthday, a Miami-Dade choose sentenced Bell to 12 years in jail for armed theft and false imprisonment in a case that had began when he was 20 years outdated. He left jail when he was 32.
Courtroom information present prosecutors filed a case towards Bell for human trafficking, human trafficking a minor, and two counts of deriving help from the proceeds of prostitution. A choose denied him bond on Thursday.
In the meantime, Betancourt was dealing with fees of human trafficking and deriving help from the proceeds of prostitution. Her bond is $22,500.
Miami-Dade County Circuit Choose Jason Bloch is ready to preside over Betancourt’s case and Circuit Choose Zachary N. James is ready to preside over Bell’s case.
Native 10 Information Task Desk Editor Mercedes Cevallos contributed to this report.
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