{"id":131659,"date":"2026-01-26T01:02:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T01:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/131659\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T01:02:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T01:02:08","slug":"miami-international-airport-evacuated-due-to-suspicious-item-left-at-terminal-authorities-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/131659\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami International Airport evacuated due to &#8220;suspicious item&#8221; left at terminal, authorities say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Miami International Airport was evacuated after a &#8220;suspicious item&#8221; was left at the terminal on Sunday evening, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after 5 p.m., the Miami-Dade Sheriff&#8217;s Office responded to MIA regarding a report of unattended luggage at Door 21 of the South Terminal on the Departures level of the airport.<\/p>\n<p>Upon arrival, deputies identified the luggage and, out of an abundance of precaution, proceeded to evacuate everyone in the area, MDSO told CBS News Miami.<\/p>\n<p>MIA Spokesperson Greg Chin confirmed the incident with CBS News Miami, saying that the TSA checkpoints for Concourses G, H and J, along with the curbside roadway, have been evacuated and closed off, causing traffic in the area.<\/p>\n<p>Chin added that passengers driving to MIA should give themselves additional time as MDSO&#8217;s Bomb Squad was brought to the scene and is investigating the situation. MDSO said in a later update that the Bomb Squad gave the all-clear around 7:40 p.m. and that the airport has resumed normal operations.<\/p>\n<p>CBS News Miami has a crew heading to the airport to gather more details as authorities continue their investigation.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Miami International Airport was evacuated after a &#8220;suspicious item&#8221; was left at the terminal on Sunday evening, authorities&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":131660,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[4920,123,125,1063,124,39045],"class_list":{"0":"post-131659","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-miami","8":"tag-bomb-threat","9":"tag-miami","10":"tag-miami-headlines","11":"tag-miami-international-airport","12":"tag-miami-news","13":"tag-suspicious-package"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131659","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=131659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131659\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}