{"id":146389,"date":"2026-02-06T19:08:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T19:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/146389\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T19:08:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T19:08:07","slug":"video-shows-man-smashing-slot-machines-with-hammer-at-hialeah-business-nbc-6-south-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/146389\/","title":{"rendered":"Video shows man smashing slot machines with hammer at Hialeah business \u2013 NBC 6 South Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Surveillance video shows a man using a hammer to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcmiami.com\/news\/local\/man-arrested-after-smashing-slot-machines-at-hialeah-business-with-hammer-cops\/3760797\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.nbcmiami.com\/news\/local\/man-arrested-after-smashing-slot-machines-at-hialeah-business-with-hammer-cops\/3760797\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">smash slot machines at a Hialeah business<\/a> during an incident that led to his arrest.<\/p>\n<p>Juan Emilio Rodriguez, 35, was arrested Wednesday on a charge of armed criminal mischief in the incident that happened back in November at a business in the 4400 block of Palm Avenue, an arrest report said.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/020526-Juan-Emilio-Rodriguez.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\"   alt=\"Juan Emilio Rodriguez\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\tMiami-Dade CorrectionsMiami-Dade Corrections<\/p>\n<p>Juan Emilio Rodriguez<\/p>\n<p>Surveillance footage showed Rodriguez approaching the slot machines armed with a hammer as customers use two of them.<\/p>\n<p>A man is seen trying to stop him but he smashed three of the machines and took cash from inside, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Rodriguez stole around $9,000 from inside the machine and later returned the cash but refused to pay for the damages, estimated to be around $14,000, the report said.<\/p>\n<p>Rodriguez, of Homestead, was arrested and booked into jail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Surveillance video shows a man using a hammer to smash slot machines at a Hialeah business during an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":146390,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[1009,225,227,226],"class_list":{"0":"post-146389","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hialeah","8":"tag-caught-on-camera","9":"tag-hialeah","10":"tag-hialeah-headlines","11":"tag-hialeah-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146389","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=146389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146389\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}