{"id":168051,"date":"2026-02-25T05:09:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T05:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/168051\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T05:09:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T05:09:13","slug":"florida-international-university-increases-security-after-hoax-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/168051\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida International University increases security after \u2018hoax\u2019 threat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0February 24, 2026 at 5:39 PM<\/p>\n<p>lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpand<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/QCE5QOVQUJDFZEDKGGGQLLHFBI.jpeg\"  width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\"\/>FIU Police Department: SKY 10 was over the Florida International University Biscayne Campus on Tuesday afternoon and there were more police officers than usual in the parking lot. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">NORTH MIAMI, Fla.  \u2014 Miami-Dade Sheriff\u2019s Office deputies helped the Florida International University Police Department to increase security on Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">According to the FIU Police Department, deputies and police officers received reports of \u201ca threat to FIU\u201d that \u201cappears to be a hoax.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Shortly before 1:50 p.m., FIU police officers stood at the parking lot of the Biscayne Bay Campus at 3000 NE 151 St., in North Miami.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Local 10 News Assignment Editors Wilson Louis and Carson Merlo contributed to this report. <\/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=\"Andrea Torres\" 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\/83a8effa-fc87-4940-96.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Andrea Torres<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">The Emmy Award-winning journalist joined the Local 10 News team in 2013. She wrote for the Miami Herald for more than 9 years and won a Green Eyeshade Award.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0February 24, 2026 at 5:39 PM lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpandFIU Police Department: SKY 10 was over the Florida International University Biscayne&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":168052,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[225,227,226],"class_list":["post-168051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hialeah","tag-hialeah","tag-hialeah-headlines","tag-hialeah-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168051","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=168051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168051\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}