Homeboy just had to floss.
Gilberto Martinez was almost penniless when he left Cuba in 2005 to start a new life in the United States.
Eight years later he returned a rich man and built a large house in his dusty neighborhood on the outskirts of Havana.
Flush with money, he drove an Audi and a Mercedes and started a music career under the artistic name ‘Gilbertman’.
But two weeks ago, his flash lifestyle caught up with him when a swarm of Cuban police descended on his home and arrested him.
Florida court records show he is a fugitive and faces up to 16 years in prison after he was indicted on Sept. 30 in a Secret Service credit card fraud probe involving $150,000 of purchases at stores including Toys’R’Us and Babies’R’Us.
‘We are starting to compile a list of those fugitives that we believe may have flown back to their native country,’ said Barry Golden, spokesman for the U.S. Marshals Service in Miami.
‘But as you can imagine it’s very hard to confirm if they are there. It’s not like we can call the U.S. embassy and ask them – at least not yet.’
Not so in the case of Martinez who posted dozens of photos of himself in Cuba on social media. ‘He’s all over YouTube so we can pretty much verify he is there,’ said Golden, who confirmed that Martinez has an outstanding federal warrant.
You got to stay low and build.