{"id":153665,"date":"2026-02-12T23:29:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T23:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/153665\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T23:29:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T23:29:07","slug":"at-least-2-arrested-several-on-the-loose-following-fraud-allegations-at-hialeah-tag-agency-wsvn-7news-miami-news-weather-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/153665\/","title":{"rendered":"At least 2 arrested, several on the loose following fraud allegations at Hialeah tag agency &#8211; WSVN 7News | Miami News, Weather, Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HIALEAH, FLA. (WSVN) &#8211; Officials say a state tag agency in Hialeah may have been fueled by fraud, resulting in the arrest of at least two people and several more remain on the loose. <\/p>\n<p>Marvin Codio and Belkis Escobar Navarro are behind bars after, police said, they were involved in the forgery of a car purchaser\u2019s signature across several Florida vehicle tags. <\/p>\n<p>Both Codio and Escobar Navarro worked at the Hialeah auto tag agency. <\/p>\n<p>They are charged with official misconduct, providing false information and vehicle forgery. <\/p>\n<p>Investigators said nine people were involved in the scheme. Most of them remain on the loose as of Thursday evening. <\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2025 Sunbeam Television Corp. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p>\tJoin our Newsletter for the latest news right to your inbox<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HIALEAH, FLA. (WSVN) &#8211; Officials say a state tag agency in Hialeah may have been fueled by fraud,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":153666,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[225,227,226],"class_list":{"0":"post-153665","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\/153665","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=153665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}