Florida gold theft results in Belize arrest
| MIAMI
Authorities say a man accused of stealing聽gold聽worth nearly $3 million in聽Florida聽is back in the U.S. after being captured in Belize.
The U.S. Marshals Service reports that 34-year-old Raonel Valdez-Valhuerdis was booked into the Miami-Dade County Jail on Wednesday. He was detained in February by Belize immigration officials at the Guatemala-Belize border.
Authorities say Valdez and two other men robbed a Bolivian export company employee outside a聽Florida聽apartment building in October 2012. The聽gold聽鈥� worth an estimated $2.8 million 鈥� was on its way to a refinery.
Valdez was arrested shortly after the robbery. He was free on $75,000 bail in March 2013 when authorities lost track of his GPS monitor, and he disappeared.
