The FBI said Bennett is set to appear in federal court in Key West on Tuesday at 11:30 a.m. He was arrested on Monday, without incident, in West Palm Beach, on a federal charge of transporting stolen goods worth more than $5,000.
http://www.mypalmbeachpost.com/news...al-coin-theft-charges/cRJXKKFC13NZlkRNBl3KYN/
additions to the timeline:
2015: Isabella Hellmann and Lewis Bennett meet online.
August 2015: Bennett registers Next Generation Solar in Florida.
September 2015 - The owner of the ship Kitty R, based in St. Maarten, bought
617 collectible coins for the equivalent of about $41,000 in U.S. dollars, valued at $100,000.
May 5 or May 6, 2016 - coins stolen around this time.
May 8, 2016 - Bennett, as First Mate, filed a police report in St. Maarten saying the coins were stolen sometime either on May 5 or early May 6, when Bennett and the owner were not aboard. The victim says the gold and silver coins were stolen by breaking open the floor of the vessel beneath a pallet of food.
May 10, 2016 - Bennett left St. Maarten after the stolen items were reported.
July 2016 - Amelia is born.
January 2017: The couple buys a condo at the Pine Ridge at Delray Beach development for $123,000.
February 2017 - Bennett and Hellman get married in Atlanta.
March 18, 2017 - Bennett flew to St. Maarten
April 8, 2017 - Government officials in St. Maarten confirmed that Bennett’s boat came in on April 8. Bennett flew back to Fort Lauderdale.
April 19, 2017 - Bennett leaves for St. Maarten.
April 29: Isabella flies to St. Maarten to meet Bennett and his catamaran, the Surf into Summer, which had been there since April 8.
April 30: The couple sail that day. Facebook postings show her May 1 in Puerto Rico and May 2 in the British Virgin Islands. Those are her last public postings, claiming her phone broke at some point.
May 14: The couple reportedly leaves Varadero, a resort town about 75 miles east of Havana, at 5:30 p.m.
The contents of the backpack were not seen by rescuers, but the Coast Guard inventoried the rest of the items on the raft: a suitcase; a backpack; unexpended parachute flares; buoys; 14 gallons of water; a homing device, and nine plastic tubes which were found to contain some
225 silver coins , which included 158 English silver coins and 77 Canadian Maple Leaf coins with a $4,200 value.
On June 16, a search of Bennett's home turned up a cache of
162 gold coins hidden inside a pair of boat shoes in his closet; those were worth about $26,100.
At least
230 stolen coins, about a third of the total, have not been recovered by investigators.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ng-sea-arrested-coin-theft.html#ixzz4r8y5sOBp
http://cbs12.com/news/local/lewis-bennet-husband-of-missing-delray-beach-mom-arrested
http://www.websleuths.com/forums/sh...FL-Keys-14-May-2017-2&p=13515439#post13515439
bbm
So he hid the coins for a year somewhere in the Caribbean, most likely in or around St. Maarten. Then he flew back in April 2017 (most likely to locate and secure the coins in the backpacks/suitcases), then came back to the US and 11 days later left with Isabella for their "delayed honeymoon" sailing trip.