Overview
- Restaurant staff reported three recipe books missing on Oct. 20 after CCTV showed two taken on Oct. 12 and a third on Oct. 19, according to police.
- Officers detained Carlos Francisco Gottberg Marquez at his second job at Shoma Bazaar, where he produced one book from his moped and said the others were at his home.
- Investigators say he confessed and told police he intended to learn the recipes and use them at another restaurant.
- He was booked into Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center on one count of theft of trade secrets, a third-degree felony under Florida law.
- Mordisco Miami’s owner said the books detail preparation of signature dishes, and Doral’s police chief emphasized the high monetary value of proprietary recipes.