The Italian prosecutor requests five years in prison for the Cuban woman who drugged and robbed men.

The Prosecutor's Office is requesting five years in prison for Lindys Pérez Felip, the 40-year-old Cuban arrested in January in Italy for drugging and robbing several men with whom she had arranged meetings through online dating sites.

Pérez agreed with the Prosecutor's Office of the province of Monza and Brianza to negotiate a five-year sentence, but the investigating judge will decide whether to accept the prosecutor's request in a preliminary hearing scheduled for this month.

Nicknamed "the Cuban mantis" - due to its similarity to the case of an Italian woman from Brianza sentenced to 16 years in prison for similar offenses - the Cuban woman was accused by the Prosecutor's Office of five incidents of theft and assault, local media reported.

According to the investigation, Pérez -who also holds Bolivian citizenship- used the same modus operandi to deceive and rob his victims, all men older than him whom he had met on a dating site under the pseudonym “Beatiful F.”

When meeting with them, he would drug them with coffee in which he had diluted benzodiazepines to steal their belongings. The events took place in Cornate d’Adda.

On January 15, the Cuban had a meeting with a 52-year-old taxi driver from southern Milan. While driving back, dazed and confused by the drug she had given him in his drink, the man left the road and crashed into a building entrance. After the incident, he realized that the woman had stolen 650 euros from him and filed a report.

A second incident, even more serious, occurred on January 26, after Pérez's meeting with a 66-year-old man from Trezzo sull’Adda in his car. The drug in the coffee - which the woman brought in a thermos and served in paper cups - acted too quickly, causing severe discomfort to the man, who was urgently airlifted to San Raffaele Hospital in Milan.

In the record of the borrowed house where the Cuban resided in Brianza, the carabinieri found paper cups and a bottle of benzodiazepines. When questioned, she claimed that she worked as a physiatrists in Bolivia.

During the police investigations, three more reports were made, which revealed the same criminal pattern: similar situations involving male victims who had met her online. One of them had traveled to Italy from Switzerland to meet her.

Authorities have been trying to find, still without success, a possible accomplice of Pérez, a woman also of Cuban nationality who was often seen with him in the bars of the area.