Florida gold theft results in Belize arrest

Florida gold theft: Raonel Valdez-Valhuerdis was booked into the Miami-Dade County Jail on Wednesday. He was detained in February by Belize immigration officials at the Guatemala-Belize border.

Authorities say a man accused of stealing gold worth nearly $3 million in Florida is back in the U.S. after being captured in Belize.

The U.S. Marshals Service reports that 34-year-old Raonel Valdez-Valhuerdis was booked into the Miami-Dade County Jail on Wednesday. He was detained in February by Belize immigration officials at the Guatemala-Belize border.

Authorities say Valdez and two other men robbed a Bolivian export company employee outside a Florida apartment building in October 2012. The gold — worth an estimated $2.8 million — was on its way to a refinery.

Valdez was arrested shortly after the robbery. He was free on $75,000 bail in March 2013 when authorities lost track of his GPS monitor, and he disappeared.