Michelle Knight — one of three women held hostage by Cleveland kidnapper Ariel Castro and rescued in 2013 after a decade in captivity — secretly married a man who was once charged with theft! Read more…
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Michelle recently announced she’d tied the knot, but didn’t name her husband.
The National ENQUIRER has learned he’s
Miguel Antonio Rodriguez (right) — and has exclusively obtained court documents that reveal he was charged with petty theft on May 12, 2006.
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According to the legal papers, Rodriguez allegedly stole merchandise worth a total of $73.48 from a Meijer store in Columbus, Ohio. After he failed to appear at a court hearing, a bench warrant was issued for his arrest.
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A court official told The ENQUIRER the case was dismissed in May 2015 based on a “constitutional issue.” A lawyer for Rodriguez denied there was any theft and said it was a case of mistaken identity, which is why the charge was ultimately dismissed.
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Michelle and Rodriguez married in May 2015, and live in Brunswick, Ohio. She was kidnapped by Castro (left) in August 2002. Along with fellow victims
Gina DeJesus and
Amanda Berry, she survived imprisonment, repeated rapes, beatings and starvation while living chained up like an animal in Castro’s house of horrors.
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The women were rescued in May 2013, and Castro was sentenced to
life in prison, plus 1,000 years, and Michelle is shown here at his trial. A month into his sentence, the brute took the easy way out and
hanged himself on Sept. 3, 2013.
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Michelle, who now goes by the name
Lily Rose Lee, published a memoir in 2014, “Finding Me,” about her ordeal, and has just released a follow-up, “Life After Darkness.”
Michelle recently announced she’d tied the knot, but didn’t name her husband.
The National ENQUIRER has learned he’s
Miguel Antonio Rodriguez (right) — and has exclusively obtained court documents that reveal he was charged with petty theft on May 12, 2006.
According to the legal papers, Rodriguez allegedly stole merchandise worth a total of $73.48 from a Meijer store in Columbus, Ohio. After he failed to appear at a court hearing, a bench warrant was issued for his arrest.
A court official told The ENQUIRER the case was dismissed in May 2015 based on a “constitutional issue.” A lawyer for Rodriguez denied there was any theft and said it was a case of mistaken identity, which is why the charge was ultimately dismissed.
Michelle and Rodriguez married in May 2015, and live in Brunswick, Ohio. She was kidnapped by Castro (left) in August 2002. Along with fellow victims
Gina DeJesus and
Amanda Berry, she survived imprisonment, repeated rapes, beatings and starvation while living chained up like an animal in Castro’s house of horrors.
The women were rescued in May 2013, and Castro was sentenced to
life in prison, plus 1,000 years, and Michelle is shown here at his trial. A month into his sentence, the brute took the easy way out and
hanged himself on Sept. 3, 2013.
Photo credit: Getty Images
Michelle, who now goes by the name
Lily Rose Lee, published a memoir in 2014, “Finding Me,” about her ordeal, and has just released a follow-up, “Life After Darkness.”