{"id":152081,"date":"2026-02-11T21:23:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T21:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/152081\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T21:23:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T21:23:10","slug":"homeless-man-lives-in-florida-fire-station-for-week-before-being-busted-wearing-station-issued-clothes-mcso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/152081\/","title":{"rendered":"Homeless man lives in Florida fire station for week before being busted wearing station-issued clothes: MCSO"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">SUGARLOAF KEY, Fla. &#8211; A homeless man from New York took up residence inside a fire station in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/us\/fl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Florida<\/a> Keys for about a week before being discovered.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">Deputies said a Monroe County fire official contacted the sheriff\u2019s office on Tuesday and said that an unknown man, later identified as Mark Alvarado, 45, was trespassing at Sugarloaf Fire Station 10.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTVT\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-2899190a=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">When deputies arrived, they said they found Alvarado in the second floor living quarters.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">Alvarado told deputies that he was homeless and from New York.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">READ: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/news\/man-accused-sarasota-quadruple-murder-killed-2-fort-lauderdale-before-taking-his-own-life-scso\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Man accused of Sarasota quadruple murder killed 2 in Fort Lauderdale before taking his own life: SCSO<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">He added that he had been staying at the station while making use of the building\u2019s water and electricity, according to MCSO.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">Alvarado told deputies that he had been at the fire station for about a week.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTVT\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-2899190a=\"\">Dig deeper:<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">According to MCSO, Alvarado was wearing a MCFR polo shirt and shorts, which he admitted to stealing from the station.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">Alvarado was charged with unarmed burglary of an unoccupied structure and petit theft.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: This article was written with information posted on social media by the Monroe County Sheriff&#8217;s Office.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/us\/fl\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-2899190a=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Florida<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-2899190a=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SUGARLOAF KEY, Fla. &#8211; A homeless man from New York took up residence inside a fire station in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":152082,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[630,47,28,30,29,115,628],"class_list":{"0":"post-152081","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-florida","8":"tag-crime-publicsafety","9":"tag-fl","10":"tag-florida","11":"tag-florida-headlines","12":"tag-florida-news","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152081","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=152081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152081\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}