MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. — A 36-year-old man accused of fatally stabbing his mother at a luxury high-rise in Miami’s Brickell neighborhood appeared in court on Saturday in Miami-Dade County.
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Miami police officers arrested Stefano Cremasco-Cicero after responding to his 911 call shortly after 4:45 a.m., on Friday, at the Solitair, at 86 SW 8th St., according to police.
“I was defending myself,” Cremasco-Cicero — who had blood on his shoes, hands, and clothing — said in the lobby of the building, according to a police officer’s arrest report.
Surveillance video showed Cremasco-Cicero and his mother going up to the 47th floor in the elevator at about 10:30 p.m. at the Soltair, according to the police report.
Cremasco-Cicero’s mother was in his 47th-floor apartment when Miami Fire Rescue personnel pronounced her dead shortly after 5:05 a.m. on Friday, according to the police report.
In the apartment, detectives found blood on several silver kitchen knives, two white shirts, two pairs of white shoes, a pair of glasses, a phone charger, an iPhone 17, broken glass, and a broken wine bottle, according to the police report.
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In June, NRN reported Cremasco-Cicero was the operating manager of the U.S. branch of The Grupo Orfano, a hospitality group with 18 restaurants, including the 1986 Steak House, which opened in May in Miami’s Coconut Grove.
Miami-Dade corrections booked Cremasco-Cicero shortly after 9:30 p.m. on Friday at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center, where he remained on Saturday afternoon, according to inmate records.
Prosecutors filed a case against Cremasco-Cicero, also known as Stefano Cremascocicero, on a charge of second-degree murder with a weapon on Saturday, according to Miami-Dade County court records.
A bond court judge denied Cremasco-Cicero’s bond, and he also had a hold related to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, according to court records.
Miami-Dade County Circuit Judge Ellen Sue Venzer was set to preside over the case. The court set his pre-trial detention hearing for 9 a.m. on Tuesday.
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