{"id":138927,"date":"2026-01-31T17:16:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T17:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/138927\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T17:16:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T17:16:08","slug":"police-seek-suspect-in-armed-robbery-at-hialeah-cricket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/138927\/","title":{"rendered":"Police seek suspect in armed robbery at Hialeah Cricket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0January 31, 2026 at 11:53 AM<\/p>\n<p>Police seek suspect in armed robbery at Cricket in Hialeah The Hialeah Police Department is investigating an armed robbery that they said occurred Thursday evening at a Cricket Wireless store.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">HIALEAH, Fla.  \u2014 The Hialeah Police Department is investigating an armed robbery that they said occurred Thursday evening at a Cricket Wireless store. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The business is located at 955 E. Eighth Ave. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/01\/31\/policia-busca-a-sospechoso-de-robo-a-mano-armada-en-tienda-cricket-de-hialeah\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/01\/31\/policia-busca-a-sospechoso-de-robo-a-mano-armada-en-tienda-cricket-de-hialeah\/\">Leer en espa\u00f1ol<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police said officers responded around 7:50 p.m. to a distress call about a robbery in progress. Upon arrival, a store employee told officers that a man entered the store brandishing a knife.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The thief, described by detectives as a Black male with a slim build wearing a ski mask, gloves and a construction vest, demanded cellphones and money from the safe. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Investigators said the employee complied with the culprit\u2019s request. They said the thief then fled north on East Eighth Avenue. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Authorities are asking anyone with information to contact the Hialeah Police Department or Crime Stoppers at (305) 471-8477. Tips can remain anonymous.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Ryan Mackey\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/8725e99c-e445-48a0-bd.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Ryan Mackey <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Ryan Mackey is a Digital Journalist at WPLG. He was born on Long Island, New York, and has lived in Sunrise, Florida since 1994.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0January 31, 2026 at 11:53 AM Police seek suspect in armed robbery at Cricket in Hialeah The Hialeah&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":138928,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[225,227,226],"class_list":{"0":"post-138927","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\/138927","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=138927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138927\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}