2 Broward men face charges after Hollywood detective investigates Miami-Dade teen’s rape and Wizz connection
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Two men faced charges on Friday in Broward County over the rape of a teenage girl who lives in Miami-Dade County, records show. Leer en españolMiami Gardens police officers met the 17-year-old victim on Jan. 17 at the Roxcy Bolton Rape Treatment Center at Jackson Memorial Hospital.The teen later told Hollywood police officers that last year she connected with a man claiming to be 18 on Wizz, an app that markets itself as a way to “meet new friends.”“She never engaged in any sexually explicit conversations with Mari, nor did she ever exchange explicit images with him,” a detective wrote, according to an arrest warrant. Through phone records, detectives identified the man she had connected with in Wizz on Nov. 20, 2025, as 22-year-old Samauri “Mari” Moton, according to the warrant. The teen agreed to meet Moton in person at 9:30 p.m. on Jan. 16 at Buccaneer Park in Miami Gardens, and he invited her to go to Hollywood Beach, according to the warrant. The teenage girl said that when she go