Nina Beltran, also known as Nina Marano, saved the Florida Bar and the state Supreme Court some trouble — she filed for a revocation, since lawyers tend to be dismissed after being found guilty of tampering with a corpse.
The state Supreme Court granted Beltran’s request on Nov. 14, stating that revocation is “tantamount to disbarment.” She has been a trial lawyer since 2012, two years after graduating from Brigham Young University School of Law. According to the arrest warrant, Beltran was employed at Empire Law Group in Polk County at the time of his arrest.
If the disciplinary action is revoked, the lawyer will be disbarred for at least five years, while any professional disciplinary action will be revoked. This does not affect the criminal or civil consequences of the attorney’s actions, so Beltran will remain in Plain Prison, a prison in Dayton, Texas. She was arrested as “Nina Marano” and is scheduled to be released on January 10, 2026, according to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.
Nina Tamar Beltran, aka Nina Tamar Marano, while in custody at Miami-Dade Corrections in 2021.
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Dallas Conspiracy and Murder
Marano was arrested in Miami-Dade while on the run with his wife Lisa Dykes (also known as Lisa Beltran) after the October 2021 murder of Maricela Botero Valadez, 23, in Dallas. .
Prosecutors said at trial that Dykes stabbed Botello to death after Botello left a bar in Dallas’ Deep Ellum neighborhood with Dykes and Charles Beltran, who was in a three-way relationship with Marano. Proved. Marano and Beltran helped hide Botero’s body, which was discovered several months later. Police said they tracked Marano and Dykes’ cellphones to woods near a cement factory outside Hutchens.
At that point, Marano, Dykes, and Beltran were studded. Marano will arrive in Miami and be arrested on March 25, 2021. Dykes would also be arrested in Orange County around the same time. Eventually, Beltran was also arrested.
Marano and Dykes posted bail and were under house arrest in Dallas. On Christmas morning 2021, Marano and Dykes cut off their ankle monitors in order to fly around town and the countryside, then boarded a plane at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport bound for Seoul, South Korea, according to trial testimony by their house arrest supervisor. I got on board. Since the holiday was a Saturday, it took two days to discover that the monitor had stopped working. They will be recaptured in Cambodia.
Murder charges against Mr. Marano and Mr. Beltran were dropped, and both men pleaded guilty to tampering with evidence. He testified against Dykes and is scheduled to remain in prison until April 21, 2027, on an unrelated robbery conviction.
Dykes was convicted of murder and evidence tampering and sentenced to life in prison. Marano did not testify against her.
“She simply chose not to testify against her spouse,” Marano’s attorney Valerie Baston told Fox4News in Dallas. “They are still legally married… They have no contact with each other. I don’t think there is any animosity between them.”
Information from Miami Herald reporter Charles Lavin contributed to this report.
