{"id":101387,"date":"2025-12-31T17:41:26","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T17:41:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/101387\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T17:41:26","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T17:41:26","slug":"hialeah-lieutenant-arrested-for-driving-under-the-influence-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/101387\/","title":{"rendered":"Hialeah lieutenant arrested for driving under the influence, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A Hialeah police lieutenant was arrested Tuesday morning, accused of driving under the influence while off-duty, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Lt. Erik Martin was placed on administrative leave pending the outcome of both criminal and internal investigations, Hialeah Police Department Lt. Eddie Rodriguez said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Martin, who has been an officer with the agency since 2006, is assigned to the Uniform Patrol Division, Rodriguez said.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">He was arrested by the Miami-Dade Sheriff\u2019s Office, which is outside of Hialeah\u2019s jurisdiction, according to police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Hialeah police Chief George Fuente called the allegations surrounding Martin\u2019s arrest \u201cdeeply disappointing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cSuch incidents tarnish the badge and distracts from the tireless work of the men and women who serve this community with integrity every day,\u201d Fuente said in a statement. \u201cWe do not condone this behavior; however, we recognize that our officers are human.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Hialeah police lieutenant was arrested Tuesday morning, accused of driving under the influence while off-duty, authorities said.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":101388,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[33581,53087,53086,53083,53082,225,227,226,53084,53085],"class_list":{"0":"post-101387","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hialeah","8":"tag-administrative-leave","9":"tag-chief-george-fuente","10":"tag-driving-under-the-influence","11":"tag-eddie-rodriguez","12":"tag-erik-martin","13":"tag-hialeah","14":"tag-hialeah-headlines","15":"tag-hialeah-news","16":"tag-police-lieutenant","17":"tag-uniform-patrol-division"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101387\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}