{"id":1185,"date":"2025-10-14T02:59:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T02:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/1185\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T02:59:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T02:59:13","slug":"man-accused-of-scaling-roof-of-hialeah-home-to-steal-pigeons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/1185\/","title":{"rendered":"Man accused of scaling roof of Hialeah home to steal pigeons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0October 1, 2025 at 4:46 PM<\/p>\n<p>Expand<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/ZHCWQNHUZVDNTETPOUBEMYMSJQ.jpg\"  width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\"\/>Lazaro Diaz and a stock photo of a pigeon (MDCR\/Pexels) <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">HIALEAH, Fla. \u2014 Hialeah police arrested a 54-year-old man on Wednesday on accusations that he committed a bizarre bird burglary.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Investigators said Lazaro Diaz was seen in surveillance footage climbing on top of the roof of a home in the 600 block of West 15th Street, removing \u201cnumerous pigeons\u201d and putting them in a bag just before 3 a.m. on Sept. 22.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cNumerous other pigeons were also taken from outside of camera view, which were kept inside of a separate cage,\u201d an arrest report states.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The report doesn\u2019t state what he was allegedly doing with the pigeons or what happened to them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Authorities said officers were familiar with Diaz, who is homeless, and saw him loitering near East Eighth Avenue and 26th Street just before 2 a.m., and took him into custody on charges of burglary of an occupied dwelling and second-degree grand theft.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A judge set his bond at $8,000 on Wednesday and he remained held at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2025 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Chris Gothner\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/3be3b5ed-fb4b-43ce-8b.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Chris Gothner <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Chris Gothner joined the Local 10 News team in 2022 as a Digital Journalist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0October 1, 2025 at 4:46 PM ExpandLazaro Diaz and a stock photo of a pigeon (MDCR\/Pexels) HIALEAH, Fla.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1186,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[225,227,226],"class_list":{"0":"post-1185","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hialeah","8":"tag-hialeah","9":"tag-hialeah-headlines","10":"tag-hialeah-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1185","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=1185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}