{"id":145393,"date":"2026-02-05T23:30:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T23:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/145393\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T23:30:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T23:30:08","slug":"suspect-arrested-after-being-caught-on-camera-using-hammer-to-break-into-slot-machines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/145393\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspect arrested after being caught on camera using hammer to break into slot machines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0February 5, 2026 at 6:14 PM<\/p>\n<p>Suspect charged after using hammer to break into slot machines in Hialeah <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">HIALEAH, Fla.  \u2014 Authorities have arrested a man who was wanted to breaking into slot machines. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The crime happened in November, at a business off Palm Avenue in Hialeah. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police caught up to the suspect on Wednesday and took him into custody. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Video shows the suspect, identified as Juan Emilio Rodriguez, coming into the business with a hammer and going to town on the machines, stuffing money in his pockets once the machines were busted open. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police said around $9,000 was taken, along with another $14,000-worth of damage to the machine itself. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Authorities said the suspect actually returned the stolen money, but he\u2019s still facing charges. <\/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=\"Rosh Lowe\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/d69633d3-fc9a-4bb5-94.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Rosh Lowe<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Reporter Rosh Lowe has been covering news for nearly two decades in South Florida. He joined Local 10 in 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0February 5, 2026 at 6:14 PM Suspect charged after using hammer to break into slot machines in Hialeah&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":145394,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[225,227,226],"class_list":{"0":"post-145393","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\/145393","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=145393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}