{"id":131736,"date":"2026-01-26T02:53:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T02:53:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/131736\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T02:53:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T02:53:17","slug":"alleged-sexual-assault-under-investigation-at-florida-memorial-university-police-say-enhanced-security-presence-on-campus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/131736\/","title":{"rendered":"Alleged sexual assault under investigation at Florida Memorial University, police say; enhanced security presence on campus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Miami Gardens Police are investigating an alleged sexual assault that took place early Sunday morning on the campus of Florida Memorial University, CBS News Miami has learned.<\/p>\n<p>Just before 7:10 a.m., a female student was waiting at a bus stop just off campus near 15800 NW 42nd Ave., when she noticed an unknown man whistling at her, according to police and sources familiar with the investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Concerned for her safety, she returned to campus and checked in with security before heading toward her dorm.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect, described as a man wearing a black hoodie and black pants, reportedly followed her onto campus, pinned her against a building door, and assaulted her before taking off in an unknown direction.<\/p>\n<p>Adonis Clarke, a freshman at FMU, told CBS News Miami that he was shocked by the reported incident and demanded more security on campus.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are here to be protected and they are not doing their job,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It&#8217;s crazy&#8230; they need to do a better job. This is not right. Especially at FMU \u2014   this is not the first incident to happen and they have to do better.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Following the incident&#8217;s report, there&#8217;s an enhanced security presence at FMU&#8217;s campus. At this time, police are still searching for the suspect and are asking anyone with information to come foward.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Miami Gardens Police are investigating an alleged sexual assault that took place early Sunday morning on the campus&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":131737,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[265,28,30,29,7290,1311,807],"class_list":{"0":"post-131736","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-florida","8":"tag-crime","9":"tag-florida","10":"tag-florida-headlines","11":"tag-florida-news","12":"tag-higher-education","13":"tag-sexual-assault","14":"tag-south-florida"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131736","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=131736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131736\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}