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| Posted Sunday, December 16, 2007 |
| Fla. woman, 26, has 10 husbands, charges say |
MIAMI (AP) -- The honeymoons are over for a 26-year-old woman who authorities say has
at least 10 husbands.
Eunice Lopez has been charged with bigamy, accused of marrying 10 men between 2002 and
2006 without divorcing any of them, federal immigration authorities say. The Miami Herald
reported Saturday that a records search by the newspaper found seven additional marriages
under the bride's name and birth date. Lopez arrived in South Florida from Cuba in 2002
and was a legal U.S. resident.
''I can tell you that none of the individuals she married had any type of residency,''
said Terry Chavez, a spokesman for the Miami-Dade office of the state attorney.
Prosecutors say she charged her husbands an unspecified amount to help them secure
immigration status and continued asking the men for money long after the wedding,
threatening to expose them if they didn't pay.
Chavez said the state attorney's office began investigating after being tipped off by
Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Lopez was released on $18,000 bond. Her last known address was in Hialeah, just north
of Miami. A telephone listing for her could not be located, and it was not known whether
she had an attorney.
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