Five Argentines who perpetrated a robbery at a shopping mall in Miami and were consequently jailed for a few days will have to appear again before the US justice system by the end of next January, as established by Judge Mindy Glazer. In this sense, the magistrate summoned them for January 29, shortly before allowing them to leave the United States, without imposing any migratory sentence on them for the time being. According to the testimony of a source close to the Noticias Argentinas agency, the five accused must present what are known as 'discharge proofs', in order to obtain some prerogative in the process initiated against them last week. The Mendoza natives Diego Luis Xiccato, 46; Mauricio Ariel Aparo, 49; Sebastián Luis Moya, 41; Juan Manuel Zuloaga, 49; and Juan Pablo Rua, 45, were charged with petty theft and orchestrating a fraud plan at the Dolphin Mall, located in the Doral area, northwest of Miami Beach. The suspects began their crime spree by stealing several suitcases in one store, and then continued through various stores, stealing clothes that they hid inside the same suitcases. During the first hearing, the defendants appeared before Judge Glazer, who set a bail of $4,000 for each to release them, as they all had return tickets to Argentina. The five were apprehended last Sunday, November 30, when officers arrested them at a bus stop near the same shopping mall, where they had used various distraction techniques to commit the thefts. Last Thursday, the accused returned to the country via Santiago de Chile, and from there they traveled in private vehicles to the city of Mendoza, amid great secrecy and the repercussion the episode generated in their home province. Even the US Embassy in Argentina made a post during the week, which showed a photo of the Mendoza natives behind bars, created with Artificial Intelligence, with the title 'Do you think it's fun to steal a shopping mall in Miami?'
