The 21-year-old Kapelushnik began selling high-end sneakers to rappers and other stars when he was in his teens, with a clientele that includes DJ Khaled, Drake, and P. Diddy. His Instagram profile has more than 1 million followers.
Fernandez Rundle said Kapelushnik was with a group of men who got into an verbal disagreement with another group of men in the hotel s lobby.
Kapelushnik and his entourage allegedly believed that one of the other men, 19-year-old Luel Alemu, had taken a picture of Kapelushnik without his permission, Fernandez Rundle said.
The group allegedly demanded Alemu’s phone, but Alemu denied taking a photograph of Kapelushnik. The argument moved from the hotel lobby out to the front entrance driveway of the hotel, where Alemu continually refused to hand over his phone, Fernandez Rundle said.
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High-profile sneaker reseller Benjamin Kickz has been arrested on robbery charges following an incident at The Fontainebleau Hotel at Miami Beach on New Year s Eve.
Katherine Fernandez Rundle, the State Attorney and prosecutor for the Eleventh Judicial Circuit of the Miami-Dade County, announced on Twitter the arrest of Benjamin Kickz, whose real name is Benjamin Kapelushnik, earlier today.
Police say shortly after midnight on New Year s Eve, Kapelushnik and his group of friends got into an alercation with 19-year-old Luel Alemu after Kapelushnik believed that Alemu had taken a picture of him without his consent. The situation quickly escalated resulting in Kapelushnik allegedly grabbing Alemu s phone before Alemu was then allegedly attacked by Kapelushnik s group of friends, leaving him with serious injuries to his body, which are said to require hospitalization and surgery.
José Javier Rodríguez lost his seat in the Florida Senate.
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Florida state Sen. José Javier Rodríguez. Not to rub salt in the wound of the Democratic incumbent for the District 37 State Senate seat who lost by 34 votes to his Republican challenger with a shadow candidate in the race that shares his last name but…did he not do any opposition research on the shadow candidate? Alex Rodríguez was an unknown who filed to run at the last minute then did not campaign. He didn t show up at events, he didn t raise money, and he didn t respond to media questions about his positions on the issues. Did that not make José Javier Rodríguez and his team just a little bit curious? For not knowing both of his opponents, José Javier Rodríguez gets my vote for worst politician. Kudos to WPLG-TV (Channel 10) reporter Glenna Milberg. Her dogged efforts to get to the bottom of this story underscore the importance of local media.
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