Police arrested a Miami man allegedly linked to violent gang activity.
He has been identified as Armani Cherenfant, 19, of Little Haiti.
Authorities said Cherenfant was part of a violent gang known as ABK. Over several days in late October and early November, officers observed him and other suspected gang members arriving at a home on the 10000 block of Southwest 162nd Street in high-end vehicles valued around $100,000.
Investigators said the home was an Airbnb converted to resemble a bank call center.
Police raided the home on Nov. 5, making 11 arrests, including four individuals who tried to escape from the back of the property.
Cherenfant, listed as a “content creator” on arrest records, was among those arrested.
Authorities said the home contained “indications of an organized fraudulent setup in the living room.” A TV played a call center background sound from YouTube, and multiple laptops and secondary Samsung phones were set up on a table in what officers described as “an elaborate effort to spoof victims.”
Officers also found five guns, multiple debit, credit, and medical cards, driver’s licenses that didn’t belong to anyone in the home, and “gang paraphernalia.”
Cherenfant was arrested on a felony charge of conspiracy to commit an organized scheme to defraud and taken to Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center, where he is being held without bond.