{"id":122708,"date":"2026-01-18T11:04:49","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T11:04:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/122708\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T11:04:49","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T11:04:49","slug":"former-riverview-martial-arts-instructor-sentenced-to-50-years-in-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/122708\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Riverview martial arts instructor sentenced to 50 years in prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RIVERVIEW, Fla. \u2014 Former Riverview martial arts instructor Daniel-Medina Alvarez was sentenced to 50 years in prison on Thursday on multiple counts related to lewd or lascivious molestation of a minor.<\/p>\n<p>He will serve his term in a Florida State prison, and each count is to run concurrently with the others. <\/p>\n<p>Tampa Bay 28 reported on Alvarez back in 2023, when <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tampabay28.com\/news\/region-hillsborough\/riverview-martial-arts-instructor-accused-of-molesting-students\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">parents were urged to talk to their kids<\/a> after his fourth arrest.<\/p>\n<p>Alvarez will also be labeled a sexual predator, per previous reporting.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story. Tampa Bay 28 will provide more details as they become available.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/MICHAEL.PALUSKA.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Abandoned &#8216;zombie house&#8217; where owner died undiscovered for years gets stunning renovation<\/p>\n<p>A dilapidated St. Petersburg home where the owner&#8217;s skeletal remains were found years after his death has been transformed from a neighborhood eyesore to a dream home.<\/p>\n<p>Abandoned &#8216;zombie house&#8217; where owner died undiscovered for years gets stunning renovation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RIVERVIEW, Fla. \u2014 Former Riverview martial arts instructor Daniel-Medina Alvarez was sentenced to 50 years in prison on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":122709,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[61149,205,276,61150,8608,135,5910,3670,137,136,208],"class_list":["post-122708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-50-years","tag-abc-action-news","tag-hillsborough-county","tag-martial-arts-instructor","tag-riverview","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-bay-28","tag-tampa-bay-local-news","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-wfts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122708","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=122708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122708\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}