The woman who sits at the top of Lexington Financial Crimes Most Wanted List has slipped back across the border, again.
Even after an arrest that landed her in custody, Yarelis Rios got across the border by using a different name.
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“Given the nature of the charges, they’re pretty serious. Theft by deception, fraud you know in excess of tens of thousands of dollars,” said Detective Mark Thomas with the Lexington Police Department.
Detectives say that the now 29-year-old has spent a lot of her time defrauding tenants as the manager of Thoroughbred Crossing Apartments.
They say she kept a small portion of nearly 200 renters monthly rent checks, stealing around 40 grand in total from tenants.
When they searched her half million dollar home they found luxury cars, jewelry, high end clothing and tens of thousands of dollars in power tools. The police seized it all but Rios had enough stored up to hide for over two years.
Last September she got what Mark Thomas calls a “brilliant break.”
“She gets apprehended for crossing the border. What does she do? She lies about her name and tells them her actual nationality so they just ship her right back to her family members,” Thomas told LEX 18’s Kristen Pflum.
Police think that she reloaded her bank accounts when she got back into Cuba and came up with a new plan for her and her boyfriend, Artemio Pimentel.
“And then she used their resources to get right back to Mexico and into the U.S,” said Thomas.
If you know where Rios or Pimentel are, you information could lead to a $1,000 rewards. Just call the Crimestoppers Tipline at (859) 253- 2020.
