A Miami couple’s hotel room turned into a middle-of-the-night nightmare when the bed allegedly shifted beneath them and a man was later discovered hiding below.
The man and woman had arrived at the Provident Doral Hotel in Doral on a Wednesday. By the next morning, police say 25-year-old Ritchel Calvaire was beneath the same bed where the couple had been sleeping.
Around 4 a.m. Thursday, the woman later told police she sensed movement near the bed after she and the man had fallen asleep, according to the affidavit.
She went back to sleep, then felt the bed move from below around 6:30 a.m.
The scare finally revealed itself about 7:45 a.m., when the woman looked beneath the bed while checking for belongings and allegedly saw Calvaire hiding there.
The couple fled, brought in hotel security and Calvaire was later located by an officer and arrested that day.
Hotel employees told investigators Calvaire had been a guest at the property before leaving on August 31, according to the affidavit.
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Two days after that checkout, he allegedly came back for belongings he had left at the hotel and was escorted away.
Investigators believe Calvaire later reentered the room “by jumping over a balcony fence and entering through a rear sliding glass door,” the affidavit said.
Police said he then allegedly “concealed himself stealthily underneath the victims’ bed” while the couple slept.
Calvaire was booked on a felony burglary charge of an occupied dwelling, and online records also list resisting an officer without violence. He remains at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center with bond “to be set.”
The Doral case put a hotel room at the center of a criminal complaint, while two other Miami-area cases turned household access and hotel rides into alleged theft or violence.
A woman who spent 12 years cleaning for the same Miami-area employer is now accused of using that access to steal watches and jewelry over several years.
Yuliedy Diaz, 48, was arrested on a Wednesday after investigators connected her to about $36,500 in valuables missing from the unidentified woman’s home.
The property included Cartier and Rolex watches, necklaces, gold bracelets, earrings and other jewelry, according to a Miami-Dade County arrest affidavit.
After the employer noticed valuables disappearing over several years, police used the nationwide pawn transaction platform Leads Online to connect 32 pieces from the home to Diaz between July 2018 and June 9, 2026.
Police said Diaz pawned 73 total items during that span. The investigation tightened when officers showed the employer a photo of Diaz and the woman spotted earrings she said belonged to her.
Diaz was hit with 12 felony charges, including 10 counts of dealing in stolen property, one count of grand theft and one count of giving false information to a pawnbroker.
One transaction listed in the affidavit dated back to September 14, 2021, when Diaz allegedly pawned the woman’s “nugget style” earrings and a band ring engraved with “MM” on the inside.
Two weeks later, Diaz allegedly brought in the woman’s yellow gold pendant charm and two white gold rings.
Investigators also linked Diaz to seven pawn transactions in 2022 that included Cartier Ballon and Rolex Oyster watches.
The affidavit said Diaz provided her license, home address, phone number and workplace “every time” she pawned jewelry, with repeated transactions at La Casa de Oro 3 Pawnshop and Cash Inn South Pawnshop.
On August 10, the former employer identified Diaz after police showed her a picture of the suspect, according to the complaint.
The woman also recognized 32 pawned pieces as “her lost property” after officers showed her jewelry photos.
After her arrest, Diaz admitted she had worked for the woman and admitted to stealing and pawning, according to the affidavit.
Diaz allegedly “willfully provided the property over” so it could be returned to her former employer.
Another Miami-area hotel case started with a rideshare drop-off and ended with an alleged carjacking captured on video.
Natasha Ethel Bagley arrived at the Sleep Inn in Miami Springs around 6 p.m. on June 2 in a black Kia EV9 driven by a male rideshare driver whose name was not released, according to an arrest report obtained by NBC 6.
Bagley, who was staying at the hotel, allegedly became angry with the driver for an unknown reason when they reached the front of the building.
Video obtained by the outlet captured Bagley stepping out, turning back toward the driver and yelling while kicking the rear passenger door.
She allegedly ripped away the vehicle’s interior weather liner and threw it onto the pavement as the driver stood nearby.
When the driver moved toward the torn piece, Bagley shoved him into the vehicle, the video showed.
The driver stepped back and appeared to use his phone, while Bagley moved out of frame before allegedly slipping to the driver’s side door and climbing inside.
He tried to pull her out, and Bagley popped up from the seat and charged at him, the video showed.
As he returned to the weather seal on the ground, Bagley got back into the vehicle and slammed the front door on him.
The confrontation continued for several minutes, with Bagley allegedly tearing out the turn signal and windshield wiper levers and slamming the door on the driver’s arm, according to the report.
Bagley eventually took hold of the wheel and gas pedal before driving away in the Kia, the report said.
Police arrested Bagley when she came back to the hotel the next day.
It was not clear whether she returned in the stolen vehicle, but the Kia sustained about $1,000 in damage, according to the report.
