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COLOMBIAN SINGERS ACCUSED OF THEFT IN SUNNY ISLES DENY ACCUSATIONS

SUNNY ISLES BEACH, FLA. (WSVN) – Two Colombian singers who were accused of ripping off a friend at his Sunny Isles condominium are saying the allegations are not true. One of them is going on the record to set things straight. Both men were accused of ripping off a friend in Sunny Isles, but they said they didn’t steal anything. Farid Duque earned his living by singing and acting in his native country of Colombia. He told 7News that his life was changed after an acquaintance accused Duque of stealing from his Sunny Isles condominium in June. “Lo peor. The worst that has happened to his life,” Duque said through a translator.

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DRAGGED INMATE TO SPEND YEAR IN TREATMENT PROGRAM

Dasyl Rios, the mentally ill inmate dragged through the Broward courthouse by her ankle shackles last month, will be released from jail and spend the next year in a residential treatment program after she resolved her pending criminal cases on Thursday. In a plea deal accepted by Broward Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer, Rios, 28, pleaded no contest to a felony cocaine possession charge and misdemeanors stemming from two 2014 arrests. She was ordered to wear a GPS ankle monitor while she lives at the non-lockdown treatment center, then will spend another two years on probation. “It’s better than the alternative,” Rios’ mother Sylvia said after the hearing. Rios, who has bi-polar disorder, could have been sentenced to prison for violating probation. “She requested the ankle monitor,” said Marla Ferguson, Rios’ attorney. “She wants to complete the program.”

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